The Meiji restoration and the dawning of Japanese modernity
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
The Meiji Ishin, or Meiji Restoration culminated in 1868 in the abolition of the feudal Tokugawa bakufu and made way for the modern, Westernized Japan. The mid nineteenth century was a time of vast development around the world, and Japan was falling behind the industrialized nation states of...
Analyzing Oswald's relationship with the FBI
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The United States intelligence community is comprised of people who live their lives according to a code of conduct and the orders they receive from superior members of their hierarchical “family”. Members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation work closely with the United States...
Aboriginal Australians - Black response to white dominance 1788 - 1980
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
It seems that a sad hallmark of indigenous peoples is their oppression and systematic elimination at the hands of foreigners. The Native American marginally survives today after centuries of conflict with Europeans. The Ainu of Japan were nearly entirely wiped out by half a millennium of...
How Peter the Great's window to the West empowered Russia
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
It was during Peter the Great's reign that Russia emerged as a prevailing European power. This advancement of Russia into European affairs would be accredited to Peter's introduction of Western technological, cultural, military and political ideas and customs. Peter's changes would begin during...
How imperial Asian activity contributed to the causes of the First World War
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
Imperialism is the policy of expanding national territory and influence. Throughout the nineteenth century Europe immersed itself in an embroiled colonial race that caused rivalries and friendships that were forever altering with every move. Central and eastern Asia was an area of particular...
Ending the reign of a crime king: The taking down of Al Capone
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
The city of Chicago, Illinois has experienced numerous monumental periods and events during its history. From the famous Chicago Fire to the creation of the world's tallest building, it is quite easy to declare Chicago's past to be very eventful. With any form of history, there are positive and...
Trials and Triumphs: A look at the leadership of the nation of Islam 1930-2005
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Nation of Islam is defined as “a religious and political organization founded in the United States in 1930 with a declared aim of resurrecting the spiritual, mental, social and economic condition of the Black man and woman of America and the world.” When the Nation of Islam was...
How did the US gain industrial leadership?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The United States acquired many of its modern characteristics during the 19th century. Among these crucial changes was the shift from an agricultural economy to a position of industrial leader in only a few decades. This transformation is clearly illustrated by Jeremy Atack and Peter Passell in...
Was Talleyrand a patriot?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Prince Charles-Maurice Talleyrand is a mysterious and enigmatic character, often misunderstood, and always demonized. This diplomat, who referred to himself as a prince, came from one of the best lineages, and fulfilled some of the most important tasks as the head of the French state for almost...
The evolution of the Hermaphrodite in Greek culture
Essay - 10 pages - Ancient history
The nature of the hermaphrodite was a source of conflicting emotions in the Classical World. On one hand, the androgynous being represented a kind of natural deformity and was treated with fear; on the other hand, the hermaphrodite was the embodiment of physical, emotional, and mental harmony....
The Sino-Soviet Split
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
"From 1945 to 1962 and from 1979 to 1991, the international order was divided between the East and the West?. This famous statement is the core of what has been called the "cold war" by the International Relations Theorist. The split between two models (Capitalism-liberalism and Marxism) has...
The battle of Shiloh
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Before day break of June 6, 1862, Federal troops discovered that Confederate soldiers were nearby. This occurred in Pittsburgh Landing, Tennessee. The Battle of Shiloh was just beginning and it would become one of the most significant and perhaps must misunderstood battles of the war. It was...
The South African crime wave
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
In 1997 South Africa had the highest murder rate in the world.1 For the period 1998 - 2000, it slipped to number two, losing the top spot to Colombia, but retained the number one position (per capita) in murders with firearms, rapes, and assaults.2 While there is some controversy regarding the...
Historical geography of the Salton Sea
Essay - 4 pages - Geography
Running a length of 35 miles, spanning a width of 15 miles and covering an area of 381 square miles, Salton Sea makes for the largest inland saline lake in the state of California. With a surface elevation of 227 feet below sea level, it is located 35 miles north of the California-Mexican border...
The German threat to the democracy, the economy and morality of the United States
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
When the origin of the United States' entrance into World War II is reviewed Pearl Harbor is the event that justified American intervention. Once bombs were dropped in Hawaii the U.S. had no choice but to declare war on Japan. The United States' values and interests were threatened and within...
Andrew Jackson: Trial reflection
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Lancaster County, straddling the state line of both North and South Carolina. Although both states claimed Jackson as their own, he himself always stated that South Carolina was his home. His parents were Presbyterian Scottish-Irish immigrants and...
The ideological clash of Athens and Sparta
Essay - 7 pages - Ancient history
At the forefront of Western Civilization stood Ancient Greece and her two most prized City-States, Athens and Sparta. Although the two developed relatively alongside each other, many cultural and ideological differences arose as time spanned itself. While Athens flourished with art,...
Labor and the Russian Revolution
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
The February and October Revolutions of 1917 were based, in large part, on Marxist visions of class struggle and working class power. Despite not being an industrial power, the Russian working class was significant. Benjamin Nathans sums up the social circumstances of Russia in the late...
Salvadoran political history from 1932 until 1979
Essay - 19 pages - Modern history
The outbreak of the Salvadoran civil war at the end of the 1970's and its continuation throughout the following decade, had an immensely detrimental impact on the society as a whole. While the crimes perpetrated by all relevant actors have been well documented in the annals of history, it is...
What were the major reforms of the Constituent Assembly?
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
The Constituent Assembly is the major political body of the first part of the Revolution which lasted from the 17 June 1789 to the 30 September 1791. The Third Estate first uses the term "Constituent Assembly" after the Tennis Court Oath, in order to replace the term "Estates General", whose...
Breve history of Liberia
Book review - 2 pages - Modern history
"American Darlings?, by Russell Blanks, and "Allah is not obliged?, by Ahmadou Kourouma, are two books which refer to the civil war in Liberia. After reading them, I wanted to try to better understand the problem and the scale of violence that has been observed in this country that was built in...
Minorities in the United States
Worksheets - 5 pages - World geography
African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and American Indians and also homosexuals form the most well-known minority groups in the US. Minorities represent roughly 25% of the American population, and they are growing at much faster rate than Americans of Anglo-Saxon descent. Within a span of...
Blacks in the United-States (1865 - today)
Worksheets - 4 pages - Modern history
Before the 1940s, there were two schools of thought: the integrationists, who favored the economic and civic equality of the Whites and the separatists, advocating separation of the Blacks from the White community, and even suggesting a return to Africa. The Civil Rights movement that took place...
World heritage sites: the walled city of Carcassonne & the Mont Saint Michel and its bay examples - publié le 13/09/2008
Case study - 9 pages - Geography
This essay aims at understanding what the issues in the management of the World Heritage Sites are, through the examples of the walled city of Carcassonne and Mont Saint Michel and its bay. The historical developments, the demands of a heritage site, and obviously the key operational issues in...
Eisler's "Cultural evolution" and evolutionary theory
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
Riane Eisler's “The Chalice and the Blade”, published in 1988, presents a new theory of human cultural evolution, as well as a new vision of reconstructed history. Eisler draws from archaeological discoveries made in the latter half of the 20th century, as well as from mythology and...
Wrinkles in time: Anachronisms in the Book of Mormon
Essay - 17 pages - Ancient history
Anyone familiar with the claims put forth in The Book of Mormon (from here on referred to as BoM) knows that they are indeed astounding. Within its pages, one takes a glimpse into an advanced ancient culture(s) that had once populated the New World (the Nephite and Lamanite cultures but...
The utility of Confucianism & civil service examinations: from Han to Qing
Essay - 6 pages - Medieval history
It was during the Han Dynasty under Confucian scholar Dong Zhong Shu's persuasion that Emperor Wu (r. 140-68 BC) canonized the five Confucian classics as teachings of the state, created an imperial academy and instituted the civil service examinations as a nascent tool of talent recruitment. The...
The fourth horseman: Disease as a unique and multi-faceted agent of Apocalypse
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
Although there exist many manifestations of apocalypse in our society, an extensive study of the subject of apocalypse will demonstrate the presence of an inherent trait that runs constant within nearly all forms of apocalypse; despite the fact that the prospect of a destructive apocalypse is...
American economic growth in historical perspective - What were the drivers of US economic growth in the long run ?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
If one could describe the American economy in a phrase, it would be ?The modern American economy'. This is the popular terminology that will be used to describe the American economy. This status achieved by America is the result of a process that started a long time ago. In the 16th, 17th and...
The Gilded Age and the Rise of Big Business -How did the US gain industrial leadership?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Industrialization is process driven. It is a steady process by which manufacturing industries develop from within a predominantly agrarian society. Through industrialization, social and economic changes are prevalent. This is followed by an increase in input and output at a per capita income...
