Is "To Kill a Mockingbird" (by Harper Lee) a novel about racism?
Book review - 4 pages - Modern history
Writing To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee has chosen to make a description of the Deep South during the Great Depression of the 30's through the eyes of a young girl, leaving us uncertain about the qualification of this novel. Indeed, reading the biography of the author, the reader realizes that...
How useful is Friedrich and Brzezinski's 'totalitarian model' for understanding the Soviet system both during and after the Stalin period?
Book review - 6 pages - Modern history
In 1918, Lenin affirmed that the « Soviet power is a new type of state, in which there is no bureaucracy, no police, no standing army, and in which bourgeois democracy is replaced by a new democracy - a democracy which brings to the forefront the vanguard of the toiling masses, turning them into...
Holocaust in American life by Peter Novick 1999
Book review - 9 pages - Modern history
Peter Novick is a professor of History in the University of Chicago. After "The Noble Dream : The "objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession" in 1988, in which he criticizes the idea of an ideal objective and neutral historical work, he published "The Holocaust in the American...
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...
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...
