The historiography of American history
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The study of history can be divided into at least two areas, known as the historical narrative and historiography. The historical narrative describes the events of history themselves, whereas historiography is the study of why the events of the past occurred. Historiographers, or historians, have...
Colonial American history: 1763-1789
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
When studying history, two aspects of the subject are considered, the historical narrative and historiography. The historical narrative is simply the description of the events that occurred, and the historiography consists of the opinions and theories of historians about why certain events...
Farkas Molnár: Functionalism and socialist architecture
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Budapest following World War I was a very different place than it had been only fifteen years before. With its crippling military defeat, the loss of some of its most productive and resource-rich land to the new Trianon borders, and a cycle of radical, ineffective and brutal regimes, the sense of...
Russian symbolists in the face of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917
Thesis - 4 pages - Modern history
“I believe that we are not only entitled but indeed obliged to consider a poet linked to his time, ” Alexander Blok wrote these words in 1918, at the height of political and social upheaval across the Russian empire. It is important to study the works of the premier minds of a...
The period from 1948 to 1953 was a phase of high intensity in Cold War history and decisively shaped the future of the European continent. Analyse the events in Europe in this period and their meaning for European integration.
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
After World War II, Europe was destroyed and two superpowers emerged; the United States and the USSR. The United States was the only state to have the atomic bomb and used the massive weapon against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and the USSR was important because of the fight against Nazi...
The figure of communism and Us-USSR bilateral diplomatic relations during the cold war : a conflict analysis
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Cold War is, together with the World Wars, probably the most important episode in Europe's and the United States XXth century diplomatic history. The conflict has an impressive amount of dimensions, motives and outcomes, most of which are probably still unknown. This being said, one...
The Cuban revolution and Fidel Castro
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The Cuban Revolution of 1959, at a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for world power, brought the communist threat within ninety miles of the American mainland (Castro, 110). Up to this point, American interaction with its southern counterparts in Latin America had...
Wilson's fourteen points: Success or failure?
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The carnage of World War I exposed the failures of the European system of diplomacy. It was in this context and even before the war ended, that American President, Woodrow Wilson, proposed his Fourteen Points, designed to establish and ensure a lasting peace following an Allied victory. President...
The Irish revolutions 1916-1923: The way to Independence
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Since the beginning of the Middle Ages, Ireland had been under the control of the English. Irish people resisted and tried to rebel in spite of the constant strengthening of the English domination. However, from the 19th century onwards changes took place, eventually leading to a revolution at...
The USA in 1968: the top of disrupt decade, the beginning of a period of uncertainties
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Like in the transatlantic countries, the year 1968 played a huge role in America's History. Sure enough at the same time France had to face the student discontent and important strikes took place in many countries and the Czech saw the entrance of the Warsaw Pact's tanks in Prague. What...
Malcolm X: a revolutionary Afro-American at home and in the rest of the world
Worksheets - 4 pages - Modern history
Malcolm X was an Afro-American revolutionary. He dedicated himself to explain the world and find ways to change it. Who was really Malcolm X? What was his impact on the Civil Rights Movement? Malcolm Little is born in 1925 in Omaha (Nebraska). His father, Earl Little was a Baptist priest, a...
Michel Abitbol, "The Jews of North Africa during the Second World War", Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989. Pp. 212
Book review - 2 pages - Modern history
This book deals with the topic of the Jews in North Africa under the Vichy regime. The author is Professor Michel Abitbol, Chairman of the Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem. He is an Israeli orientalist and a specialist in Jew history in Morocco. The Jews situation was different in Algeria, Morocco...
Christopher J. Dodd, "Letters from Nuremberg", New-York: Three Rivers Press, 2007. Pp. 374 ; Karl Fuchs, "Your Loyal and Loving Son", Washington D.C.: Brassey's Inc, 1987. Pp. 163
Text commentary - 3 pages - Modern history
Letters from Nuremberg' by Christopher Dodd, US senator from Connecticut, with the collaboration of Lary Bloom, is an epistolary book. It is a collection of Christopher's father's letters, Thomas J. Dodd, written between July 1945 and September 1946 to his wife. During this period...
Stanley Hoffmann, "Collaborationism in France during World War II" in The Journal of Modern History (Sept 1968), 375-395
Book review - 2 pages - Modern history
This article by Stanley Hoffmann from Harvard University, deals with the collaboration in France during the Second World War. The author enlightens the reader about this complex subject which did not receive sufficient study according to him. Hoffmann discusses the differences between several...
America and the First World War
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The First World War was a tragedy that America entered under false pretenses and exited with lasting wounds. America's involvement was encouraged by those who had the least to lose from the war: industrialists, politicians, and journalists. Their efforts were crucial in shifting public opinion...
Citizen 13660: Race as justification for internment
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
In the aftermath of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, feelings of fear, anxiety and uncertainty were understandably abundant. When the dust had settled, America would officially declare war against not only the Japanese, but also Germany and Italy. As is the case with any...
The role of the Catholic Church as a key opponent since the 1970s against the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
One can observe that, among the different opponent actors who played a role in the opposition, the Catholic Church took a greater place in Eastern and Central Europe until the collapse of the communist regimes in the countries, by encouraging and aiding political opposition to authoritarian...
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...
Gas warfare during WWI
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
World War One was a war of stalemates. The western front turned to trench warfare quickly after the failing of Germany's Schlieffen Plan and soldiers remained in the trenches for the rest of the war. However, WWI was a war stalemated technologically as well. An example of this technological...
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,...
A critical examination of the roles of Clive, the East India Company and Hastings in the expansion of the empire in India
Thesis - 11 pages - Modern history
The East India Company was originally incorporated as an English Joint Stock company with the overriding objective of initiating British trade objectives in the East Indies. The company's evolution from trading corporation into a central vehicle for expanding the British Empire in India in...
Joseph Conrad and imperialism
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Jósef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, more commonly known as Joseph Conrad, was born in Ukraine in 1857; causing him to grow up in a time when Europeans were focused on claiming territories in Africa. As a young boy, Conrad had aspirations to travel the Congo River in Africa. Conrad found work as a...
The roaring twenties and the fall into depression
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
The early United States was predominately rural. The number of Americans living in cities did not surpass the number living in rural areas until 1920. The economic opportunities brought on by the industrial revolution had people flocking to the central cities, which in turn grew immensely. Prior...
Populism in the United States of America
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
The Populist Party was a political party in the United States in the late 1800s. It was made up of mostly western farmers who were opposed to the gold standard. The Populist Party grew from the Farmer's Alliance which in response to the collapse in agriculture prices after the Panic of 1873,...
The United States reconstruction
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
During the American Civil War the Southern states seceded from the Union. Once the Confederacy was defeated Lincoln and his associates seriously considered tactics on how to reintegrate the Southern states and what to do with Confederate leaders and the freed slaves. Lincoln wanted a mild...
Westward expansion and the Mexican American war
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. Jackson believed in a strong presidency and he vetoed a dozen pieces of legislation, more than the first six presidents put together. He shaped the modern Democratic Party and dominated American politics in the 1820s and 1830s....
The American revolution: Briefings
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
The main motivations behind the American Revolution can be summed up under the categories of “God” and “money”, meaning both ethical and economical. Ethically, the American Revolution took place because the colonists could no longer tolerate living under the king's tyrannical...
