To what extent was the fate of the Revolution linked to the personalities of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette ?
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
The French Revolution is deeply linked to the individuals, and the King and the Queen do not infringe on that rule. The personalities of the sovereigns', by which we mean their characters, the values they embody and how they were seen in public opinion, determined, among others the increasing...
Space Race
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
The Space Race was an informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1957 to 1975. It involved the parallel efforts by each of those countries to explore space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land people on the Moon. Space was a...
The impact of the French Revolution (1789-1815) on life in France during the nineteenth century
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The whole nineteenth century can be seen as a century of experiment of political systems and institutions, a span of time where the French population looked for a political identity according to its specific heritage by trying a lot of regimes through different Constitutions. However, no system...
Rebels With A Cause, by Asa Briggs
Book review - 9 pages - Modern history
This document is an extract of the book ?Everyday life through the ages' written by Asa Briggs and published in 1992. In this book, the author relates the way of life as it has developed through the centuries. It is important to understand the approach with which she tackles the American and...
Comparing the Jewish experience in Western Europe and the United States in the modern era
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
The United-States is a country built by immigrants, especially Jewish European immigrants. Immigrants actively participate in the elaboration of American culture. This country particularly respects ethnic and religious particularism and promotes "affirmative action" in the direction of sexual and...
The rise of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The original idea of the Ku Klux Klan was born in the late 1865, in the minds of six young men -John Lester, James Crowe, John Kennedy, Richard Reed, Frank Mc Cord and Calvin Jones- in the quiet town of Pulaski, Tennessee. They were Confederate soldiers during the Civil War and were bored with...
Was the Great Famine of greater significance for the histories of subsequent generations than for those of the period 1845 - 50?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Ireland in the beginning of the 1840's had a population of eight million inhabitants of whom more than four-fifths lived on the land and it was one of the most densely populated countries in Europe. The prosperous phase which prevailed in Ireland at the beginning of the 1840's was unfortunately...
Assess why the era of embedded liberalism (1945-1974) came to an end
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
One of the most important events of the 1970s was the end of the era of embedded liberalism; it brought about a change in the world order. Embedded liberalism was weakened, if not undermined, not by neo-protectionism, but by neo-liberalism (Adrian Jones 2005). Neo-liberalism entails heightened...
La troisième voie de Tony Blair
Essay - 14 pages - Modern history
Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, une nouvelle philosophie économique appelée "keynésianisme" d'après le nom de son principal promoteur, John Maynard Keynes (1883-1945), considérait - contrairement à la doctrine du "laissez-faire" - que le libre fonctionnement du marché était une bonne chose,...
Discuss the view of education as sophisticated opium for the masses
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
We will discuss the education under the early Third Republic, and we cannot move away from the context. In 1881 and 1882, when the Ferry's Law was promulgated, the Republic was not comfortably established in France. Monarchists and Bonarpatists were very much present in the country and the...
The treaty of Versailles
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
World War I (1914-1918) left the European continent completely devastated (especially France and Belgium). Human and material losses were massive. Indeed, about 10 million lives had been lost during the war. In order to prevent this nightmare from happens again, the victorious powers (the...
Was the assumption of German musical supremacy merely a constituent part of an emergent German nationalism between 1870 and 1918?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
What the German nation is and what its boundaries are have always puzzled historians of the early construction of the German nation-state. Indeed the further back into history one searches, the more elusive the very notion of a German national identity becomes. According to Herder, nationalism...
Rushdie: A Bend in Indian History
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Salman Rushdie has been in hiding for over a decade due to assassins who are out searching for him because of his “anti-Islamic blasphemy, belief and disbelief, anti-Thatcher politics, and pro-Western propaganda” (Kuortti 1999: 15). Even though Iranian leader, Khomeini, who initially...
Transitional "Electoralism"
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In October 1998, Yeltsin defeated his opponents by military force and thus communicated a clear message about both his power and his resolve to achieve his objectives. After this, he presented a new institutional design for organizing politics in Russia. His enemies as well as the population as...
Cultural Transformations
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
World War Two left Europe war torn and destitute. Over 30 million people had been “uprooted, transplanted, expelled, deported and dispersed…in the years 1939-43” (Judt, Postwar, p. 23). Many cities were completely destroyed including Minsk, Royan, Le Havre, Hamburg, Cologne,...
The Collapse of a Superpower
Thesis - 4 pages - Modern history
After World War I, Communism reigned in Russia, which became known as the Soviet Union (USSR). As Karl Marx said, Communism would only be successful if it occurred as a worldwide revolution; thus by its nature, Communism needed to spread. Therefore, after World War II, the Western Allies,...
When the Japanese moved into Southeast Asia in 1941, local reactions to the occupying forces differed greatly. Evaluate the motivations that fueled these varying responses, taking into consideration particular local situations and periods of the war
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Raising the question of the reactions to the Japanese takeover in Southeast Asia is very delicate and original for many reasons. Firstly, Southeast Asia is a broad region and it is most likely that the reactions of locals will differ greatly from one place to another. Secondly, there is not one...
What was the significance of the Thatcher years?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Although the Thatcher years marked a significant break from the post-war political settlement, ‘Thatcherism did not cause a single, abrupt caesura appearing out of the blues'. Truly, Thatcher's success during her years has mostly depended on a range of circumstances and political commitments...
The errors of the Puritans
Book review - 5 pages - Modern history
The document we're going to talk about today is a set of extracts from Richard Hooker's work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity written in 1593 (the 3 dots suggest that they were cuts in the text). Actually, this is his main work and it consists of eight books that were published during the...
Radicalization of the French Revolution, from 1789 to the end of 1794
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The French Revolution is often depicted as a process of growing violence, underpinned by more and more radical theories. Indeed, a Manichean view often leads people to believe that France was peaceful in the beginning of 1789, and turned violent and radical in 1793. In other word, it is often...
The diplomacy of Vichy: June 1940 to November 1942
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
The history of Vichy has been subjected to heated controversies since 1945. In the years that followed the liberation, most historians and politicians alleged that France had resisted to the German, and developed a myth, the “Resistantialisme”. This term implies that the majority of the...
The structure of the Terror locally and nationally
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The terror is often depicted as the most violent period of the French Revolution, and maybe of the French history. The terror is a regime set up by Robespierre and the Committee of public safety in the aftermath of the fall of the Girondins on the 2nd of June 1793. The committee of public safety...
Industrial relations in the United States: A way from confrontation to cooperation - publié le 11/04/2007
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The industrial relations characterize the employee-employers relation in a company. In the United States, the term “industrial relation” really appeared with the creation of the Commission on Industrial relations in 1912 after two leaders of the Structural Ironworkers Union killed...
A little story of Asian Immigration in the American West
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
The story of the immigration of the Asian community to America is, like many other immigration stories. People do not casually leave an inherited way of life. Events must be extreme enough at home to compel them to go elsewhere. The history of Asian immigrants coming to settle in the New World is...
The reasons behind decolonization
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Between the two world wars, colonialism reached its zenith. Geographically first: at this time, colonial empires were indeed established in every continent, notably in Africa where France and Britain had the lion's share. Economically speaking, the context of economic slump and protectionism...
The impact of the French Revolution (1789-1815) on social structure, legal system and political life and institutions during the nineteenth century in France - publié le 21/03/2007
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Some events remain in the history of mankind forever, the French Revolution (1789-1815) is definitely one of these. Indeed, a few upheavals, such as this one, triggered so many thoughts, comments and passionate reactions all over the world. Although a lot of scholars tried to understand and...
The impact of the French Revolution (1789-1815) on social structure, legal system and political life and institutions during the nineteenth century in France
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Some events stamp on the history of mankind forever : the French Revolution is definitely one of these. Indeed, really few upheavals such as this one triggered so many thoughts, comments and passionate reactions all over the world. Although lot of scholars tried to understand and qualify this...
David O'Connell: Catholic Emancipation & Repeal of the Act of Union - publié le 09/03/2007
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
The success of the Catholic Emancipation campaign aroused a lot of hopes in Ireland. Six seventh of the Irish population was catholic, and hence, it was possible for them to “hold all civil and military offices except the offices of Regent, Lord Chancellor and Lord Lieutenant” . Daniel...
Japan since 1945-left Asia to join the West?
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
In 1639, the rule of Tokugawa Iemitsu officially stated the edict of separation of Japan, establishing a long period of isolationism for the Nippon archipelago. During this period, every contact between Japan and the outside world was forbidden, and “every Japanese who would leave the...
Japan and China in the 1930's
Essay - 11 pages - Modern history
At the end of the XIXth century, the dominant position of European powers and of the United States in the Far East remained unmistakable. In fact, the European powers occupied Indochina and shared the occupation of China. Asia remained a stifled continent. But at the end of the century, Japan,...
