The black Thursday - economics and political consequences
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
They built the American way of life based on large consumption and developed a new way of life with vehicles, Medias and home equipment that created high standards of living. Taylorism is implemented in plants and Ford added new procedures like organization of work in 1908 and launched the famous...
Dachau concentration camp memorial is just one typical example of the many failures of coming to terms with the NS past during the era Adenauer'
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
On 15 September 1949, the conservative Christian Democratic politician Konrad Adenauer was elected to serve as the first Chancellor of the new Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Hence, the Adenauer era started and lasted until 1963. The choice of a conservative Chancellor reinforced the choice of...
Why is the use of the terms 'resistance' and 'collaboration' problematic when assessing African relations to the imposition of French colonial rule in Africa?
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
When assessing African relations to the imposition of French colonial rule in Africa, the terms 'resistance' and 'collaboration' are often used by English literature. They respectively designate the struggle against colonialism and the co-operation between the indigenous people...
Outline some of the key features of the way in which Camus depicts Franco-Algerian relations during the colonial period. To what extent do such visions of Algeria and Algerians continue to be reproduced in France today?
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
Born and raised in colonized Algeria among the Algerian population but educated as a Frenchman by the French education system, Camus had always developed a specific vision of Algeria. Indeed, even if as a humanist he was against many excesses of French colonization, though he truly believed in...
Explain to what causes intellectuals committed themselves during the Algerian War and why. You will illustrate your ideas with clear references to two of the following intellectuals: Camus, Sartre or Fanon
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
The French political establishment, the vast majority of the French population and the pieds noirs denied the existence of an Algerian nationalist movement because, according to them, "there was no such thing as an 'Algerian nation' and that Algérie would always be française" (Drake,...
The impossible conservative republic 1795-1801
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
The April 1791 elections brought about two meetings of royalist majority. The directors then took the initiative to rescue the Republic. They seeked for the support of an armed force. On the nights of 3 and 4 September 1797, the Army invaded. Elections were stopped. This apparent success sealed...
Constitutional monarchy to a republic : july 1790-january 1793
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
France is at war with Austria since April 20. On July 25, Brunswick promises the worst tortures in Paris where Parisians do not subordinate themselves to the king, which spreads out into the open connivance of the king abroad. Paris takes a petition calling for the overthrowing of the king. The...
The Nation, Law and the King
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
1790 to 1792 was a time of illusion of a constitutional monarchy. There existed democratic pluralism. The bulk of the nation was represented by political clubs being three in number. The first of these clubs was located in the Quartier Latin, 'the Cordeliers Club: Society of Friends of Human...
The Nationalities of Europe (1848-1914)
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
Garibaldi was born on July 4, 1807 in Nice, in a French liberal family. He saw Rome when he was 13 years old for the first time. And at that time Italy was occupied on all sides by foreign dynasties. He began his intellectual training in 1833 with a trip to Marseille. He encountered a colony of...
Union Tradition, Institutionalization Dynamic and Industrial Democracy in France and Germany after
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
The concept of industrial democracy is both old and generic. As such, it allows the comparative questions in an unique arrangements and ideas that have emerged in national and historical contexts. The notion of 'industrial relations' in France and 'industrial relations' in Germany...
About the authenticity and unity of Indian American identity
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
France Info, a well known French radio station, reported about the federal American Government's decision to grant 1.4 billion dollars as claimed by Elouise Cobell, from Blackfeet tribe, to compensate the native land dispossession since 1887. This news reset the question of Indian American...
The black Thursday: reasons and consequences into the USA
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
It is during the First World War that America has really developed its industry to conquer the first place in the world, and it seems to have retained the position even till today. During times of war, European economies were destroyed and Americans developed new technologies and industries as...
The modernization of Russia through the urban transformations in the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In the second half of the 19th century, Imperial Russia went through a lot of changes. Reforms of serfdom, administration, clergy and lot of others caused changes in the society and the formation of a new organization within the different social classes. The country was also going through a new...
Charlotte Forten Grimke: An American educational pioneer
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
“Charlotte belonged to the prominent member of the Forten-Purvis family. Her family were activists for Black causes and Charlotte proved to be just as influential an activist and leader of civil rights. Her parents were Robert Bridges and Mary Woods Forten. Her father and his brother in law,...
What drove western intervention in the Middle East during the Cold War?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The Middle East was one of the most covet zones in the past century. Located at the crossroad between western nation, the "Third World" and the communist bloc, it played a strategic role during the colonial era, the Second World War and mainly during the cold war. Because of its immense natural...
Why did the Republicans lose the Civil War?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
"Indeed, there was a confrontation, the will of extermination, one more organized that is true, the other more instinctive, one and the other exacerbated" The Spanish civil war was in fact a bloodshed provoked by the confrontation of two political, ideological and social groups: the Nationalists...
George Clemenceau
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
George Clemenceau, and not 'Clémenceau' as many people use to write his name just to bother him, was born on the 28th September, 1841 in a modest house of a small Vendee village. But contrary to the appearances and to what he often claims, Clemenceau is not from a provincial background....
Chernobyl disaster
Essay - 17 pages - Modern history
In what is now a cold barren wasteland, lays the abandoned city of Pripyat and the lifeless Red Forest. Its silence is a deafening reminder of the tragic events of April 26, 1986. Lives were shattered and perceptions were changed forever. What was scheduled as a safety test ended up spiralling...
Study of a charismatic leader : Martin Luther King
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
Management is the whole of techniques that an organization has in order to organize, plan and control all the resources which are implemented for the administration of the entity. In order to take into account the impact of the time and the type of risk and information on the decision makings of...
The Dáil Debates: the premises of the split? (14th of December 1921 ? 7th of January 1922)
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
After the Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921, the British government proposed in July 1921 to negotiate a Treaty with the Cabinet of the Dáil. The five plenipotentiaries sent by the Cabinet signed a Treaty on the 6th of December 1921, by which Ireland was granted a large autonomy, but was split into...
What were the main factors of the collapse of " Social Democracy " in Britain?
Essay - 11 pages - Modern history
After the Second World War, the British political and economic landscape underwent a radical transformation in its own foundations. Indeed, the previous economic orthodoxy that had characterized the governing of Britain was substituted by a Keynesian form of welfare state. It was the beginning of...
Finland's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s and its effects on the society
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
In the 1950s, while the Cold War between the Eastern and Western blocks was at its beginning, most of the European countries began to rebuild themselves in order to recover from World War II and Finland was no exception. After this period of reconstruction, most of these countries underwent a...
The French Revolution: Virtue or Terrorism?
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". A great motto, thoughts important enough to live and even to die for. These were the most enduring thoughts on which the French Revolution was based on. Yet, in order to implement these principles, the French revolutionaries sent more than 40,000 citizens to the...
During the Cold War Period, To What Extent is America an Empire?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
As we ponder over whether America was an empire during the post World War II period or not, we must first and foremost, try to define the notion of empire. This will help us analyze the situation of America at that time. "Imperialism and thus the notion of empire resembles Darwinism, in that many...
Malcolm X and the Black Panthers
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The Black Panther Party was established by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 to promote Black Power and self-defense through acts of social agitation. While the organization's leaders passionately espoused Malcolm X's theories and socialist doctrine, an ideological consensus within...
Why Was There a Counterrevolution?or Counterrevolutions? - publié le 17/06/2009
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
The term counterrevolution has its roots in the middle of the Eighteenth century. If we have to completely understand why there was a counterrevolution, we have to first define this word properly. Unless properly defines, it could cover diverse realities depending on the context and the period...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy´s Vietnam policy : a groundwork leading to war ?
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
On November 1st, 1955, Dwight D. Eisenhower deployed the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) to train the South Vietnamese Army, which had about 200 Americans. Ten years later, almost 400, 000 GIs were fighting in Vietnam. 58, 000 of these people never came back. During this period, the...
How useful is the concept of modernisation in understanding the origins and aims of Fascism and Nazism?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
According to Detlev J.K. Peukert in the "Weimar Republic; The crisis of Classical Modernity", Fascism is the result of modernity crisis. Several authors have tried different approaches in order to understand and define what fascism is all about. In fact, there is no clear, objective definition;...
Hô Chi Minh and the Viêt Minh: a communist revolutionary path to Vietnamese Independence
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
Prior to the Indo-china War I and the Indo-china War II, the French Indo-china was a part of the French Colonial Empire of the South East Asian entity. The interest from France in the South East Asian countries and its affairs initially varied but was on the rise from time to time. This was...
African states were sometimes very effective actors in the 19th century through capitalising on economic possibilities
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The nineteenth century has been a turning point in the West African economic history. Indeed, the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century marked the intensification of commerce and the progressive switch from slave trade to agricultural resources trade; as a result of the...
