The short-lived decorations and installations set up during the parties given by Louis XIV in Versailles - publié le 05/08/2014
Case study - 10 pages - Modern history
In 1661 Louis XIV decided to spend more and more time at Versailles, the former hunting lodge of his father, the King Louis XII. However, and in spite of the begun works, the interior of the Palace remained too small for the parties. In that way the parties were given in the garden, masterfully...
The symbol of the foreigner in French history
Case study - 4 pages - Modern history
The word foreigner is strongly connected to the idea of Nation; indeed it is the creation of the Nation that in turn generated this new meaning given to the word foreigner. The creation of the nation drew a line between national and non national, between citizens and foreigners. To some...
Benjamin Franklin
Case study - 3 pages - Modern history
America was founded on the principles of truth, justice and equality - we believe (or did, at least) that if we are intelligent, true, and work hard enough, we will succeed in this land of opportunities. Nowhere is that belief and its fulfillment better shown than in the life of Benjamin...
Impact of gunpowder on history
Case study - 3 pages - Modern history
Considered to be the first invention in chemical explosives in the world, Gunpowder was invented by Chinese Alchemy in 9th century during the Tang Dynasty. Historians also argue that it was invented in 11th century during Song Dynasty. Gunpowder invention is popularly listed as one among the four...
How similar, and how different, were the means by which Hitler and Mussolini imposed totalitarian rule on Germany and Italy respectively?
Case study - 4 pages - Modern history
Hitler was invited into power in Weimar Germany to be Chancellor in 1933; similarly, Mussolini was invited into power in Italy to be Prime Minister in 1922. After this entry into power, they set out to impose totalitarian rule on their respective countries. By “totalitarian rule” I...
History 9067/3: international history, 1945 - 1991 - published: 09/07/2013
Case study - 4 pages - Modern history
On 24 June 1948, Stalin of the Soviet Union, or USSR, blocked all ground and water access from West Germany to West Berlin. In response, the US brought supplies into West Berlin from the air. This, known as the Berlin airlift, lasted for almost a year. Then, on 12 May 1949, the blockade,...
History as identity: The American past as contested terrain
Book review - 20 pages - Modern history
We look to the past to tell us who we are, where we are, and how we got here from there. History is identity, and thus it is contested terrain. Whose story is going to be told, and who is going to do the telling? The American narrative - the history of who we are, where we've been, and what it...
The Boer War
Case study - 2 pages - Modern history
Many events affect the shaping of a country. These instances could be a combination of multiple factors. War is a specific occurrence that could affect any country tremendously. Every portion has explicit affects. The Boer War is a detailed incident that had numerous affects on the parties...
Can the onset of the fall of fertility in Europe be related to the economic and social circumstances of the individual countries at the time?
Case study - 10 pages - Modern history
Understanding the onset of the fall of fertility in Europe requires understanding of changes in mortality as it is understood that "the beginning of mortality decline generally precedes that of fertility". The 'demographic transition' saw the average number of births per women fall from...
What are the reasons for the growth in the world's major urban centres in the twentieth century? Are the reasons for the growth similar to those that explained urban growth in the developed countries?
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
While the origins of cities go back to over five thousand years, urbanization; the process of population concentration into urban areas is a recent phenomenon dating back to the 18th Century when cities began growing in the now developed world. As Davis puts it, “before 1850 no society could...
What happened to the social state in Eastern Europe after 1990?
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, each Eastern European and former Soviet country faced many challenges and one of them was how to cope with the welfare state under a different political organization. Now that the Soviet rule was gone, what was the road to be taken? Should the State...
In what ways and why was Britain's industrialization experience unusual?
Case study - 5 pages - Modern history
The British Industrial Revolution is a highly debated historical event. The discussion is vigorous, especially when it comes to the origins of the Industrial Revolution. Perhaps the most common questions in this respect are: “Why was England First?”, “What was so special about...
What has the so-called death of distance meant for the economic prospects of cities and nations?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In the 19th and 20th centuries, cities were able to attract people and develop primarily because of the lower cost of transportation for goods, people and knowledge that they provided. Distance is costly; search costs for the market and for suppliers, management costs, shipping costs, and...
Television as a potential media tool
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Current media analysis is highly focused on the perceived failings of television. The medium has been charged with being overly commercial, catering to the interests of political and governmental elite and facilitating the softening of the news by prioritizing stories with high dramatic or...
What and who are the "spin doctors", in media terms?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The current democratic political landscape is characterized by continuous shifts in power between politics and the media and dependant on the increasingly malleable opinions of the general public, spin doctors provide politicians with a means to somewhat control the perceptions of the populous...
How tactics and logistics contributed to the victory of the British in the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
This paper will discuss how British tactics and logistics contributed to their success in the Waikato campaign of the New Zealand Wars in 1863-64. Geoffrey Parker, in his book ‘The Cambridge History of Warfare' explains his five fundamental principles of western warfare. These are: a...
1870-1914: Global economy, nationalism and the First World War
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Though Professor Davies was essentially right in his description of a prosperous late 19th century in the wake of the Industrial Revolution which brought major industrial and scientific discoveries, the outbreak of the War in 1914 was not regarded as a surprise. The German state has often been...
How the tsarist autocracy managed to survive the 1905 Revolution?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The aspiration for freedom of Russian society dominated the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century until the fall of Tsarist autocracy in the wake of the 1917 revolution. The latter gave birth to a new literature with different interpretations on the question...
Underwater Roman archaeology: Shipwrecks, shrines and submerged sites
Essay - 10 pages - Modern history
The practice of underwater archaeology provides archaeologists with new methods of exploring archaeological sites, utilizing new technologies such as SCUBA, Remote Operated Vehicles, and multibeam three-dimensional scanners. The information to be gleaned from submerged sites can provide valuable...
History of Britain before Shakespeare
Internship report - 7 pages - Modern history
Before 450 AD: Celtic Originally the populations of England were mixed, partly Neolithic and Celtic, Celts of Britonnic variety (the Britons), hence the first name of the island, Britannia when it was conquered by the Romans who only were stopped by the Scots up north. Between 450 and 650 AD:...
The legacy of Pol Pot in Cambodia's history
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
Due to the social differences, economic depression and military decline in Cambodia during the mid 1900s, Pol Pot along with his communist political party, the Khmer Rouge, were able to take power and force their ideals on the people of Cambodia through forced labor, genocide, and torture until...
Document on The New Deal of FDR
Course material - 2 pages - Modern history
This document is giving you the main explanations and definitions on the New Deal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to tackle the American problem of the Great Depression which was caused by the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and of speculation. It will talk about the emergency measures that he took to put...
Stalin's legacy.
Worksheets - 6 pages - Modern history
Cette dissertation de niveau 3eme année de licence vise à montrer que la mémoire dont Staline fait l'objet en Union Soviétique puis en Russie s'articule autour de deux éléments contradictoires : il est évidemment considéré comme un tyran sanguinaire, responsable de famines et...
American Civil War
Essay - 1 pages - Modern history
The American Civil War was a conflict between the Northern states and the Southern states. The war raged for four years (1861-65) and was marked by some of the bloodiest battles of modern history. The economic situation was very different between the North and the South. There was an industrial...
Bloodlands - Timothy Snyder
Book review - 2 pages - Modern history
Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler & Stalin - Timothy Snyder tFourteen millions people were killed by totalitarian regimes in the countries between Hitler and Stalin from 1933 to 1945. This work reveals a polemic analogy between the Europe from Hitler, the National Socialism and the Europe...
The rise of student anti-war protests in the Vietnam War era
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The first explanation that could be found, and maybe the most evident, is the war itself. The concept of war as well as its substance generated strong protests in reaction, because it united the many independent interests that the anti-war movement used to consist of. Indeed, the basis of war...
TPE européen (en anglais) sur Napoléon Bonaparte
Speech - 2 pages - Modern history
Idéale pour un oral de TPE en anlgais: mise en scène très aisée grâce au texte. "Let us tell you the story of a great man, a man who marked history: Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15th August 1769 in Ajaccio. His parents were very productive: 12 children, 8 survived: 5 boys, 3 girls. He...
Fascisme et dictature en Italie: Mussolini
Case study - 2 pages - Modern history
Essai de niveau L3 perfectionné par la lecture de 5 livres traitant du sujet (référencés en notes de bas de pages). Après la fin de la première guerre mondiale, l'Italie était en proie à un désordre politique et social qui s'est avéré extrêmement favorable à l'expansion fasciste....
Was the Khrushchev period (1953-64) a period of thaw in the Cold War?
Thesis - 6 pages - Modern history
Since the start of the Cold War in 1945, it seemed as if both the USSR and the USA, the two most powerful and influential superpowers, were set to be opponents in the game for world domination. Indeed, as no actual fighting and direct collision between the two nations took place, it was public...
Analyze the evolution of the Cold War between 1945 and 1949
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
After the end of the Second World War, the victorious Allies split the post-war world between them. With each superpower focusing on their personal ideological interests, historians have found critical information that would foreshadow future tensions between the Big Three. The harmony which...
