Was the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco relevant?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Luis Carrero Blanco has been Franco's shadow and his life is one of the most mysterious in the Spanish history of the twentieth century. He always seemed to be a minor figure. He was from the middle-class, had little ambition but had an important working capacity and above all, he was absolutely...
The civil war in Greece: the role of the Greek civil war in the International History of the post war era
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
The Greek civil war took place between 1943 and 1949. It is one of the most painful episodes of Greece history. We can wonder what was the role of the Greek civil war in the International History of post war era, especially its belonging to the transitional period between the end of...
The civil war in Greece: the role of the Greek civil war in the International History of the post war era - publié le 27/07/2006
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
The Greek civil war took place between 1943 and 1949. It was one of the most painful episodes of Greek history. This paper will deal with the role of the Greek civil war in the International History of the post war era, especially because it belonged to the transitional period between the end of...
Religion and early American identity - publié le 27/07/2006
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Trying to determine what the motives of the migrants to the new world were is a difficult quest because motivations were diverse depending on the colonies. The migrants could be motivated by economical considerations. They thought they could have a better life, to be richer in North America by...
Religion and early American identity
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Trying to determine the motives of the migrants to the new world is a difficult quest because their motivations were diverse and depended on the colonies they came from. The migrants could have been motivated by economical considerations and might have moved in search of a better life, and to be...
The government of the Iroquois
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
The Iroquois confederation, also called the League of Nation was a confederation of five Nations. These Nations of Iroquois were the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas and the Senecas). A sixth Nation (the Tuscaroras) joined the confederation in the early eighteenth century. They...
Church and state controversy in the middles ages
Essay - 5 pages - Medieval history
The disputes between Ambrose and Theodosius, the Carolingian rebellious episcopacy and Louis the Pious, and Gregory VII and Henry IV led to a same conclusion; the three emperors did penance. We can view these disputes as different episodes at different times of a same thing; the struggle between...
Indigenous People in Peru
Essay - 4 pages - Geography
Gregorio and Asunta, a Peruvian Indian couple, tell their life stories in “Andean lives”, a pair of autobiographical narratives edited by two young anthropologists. The story takes place in the highlands of Peru, where millions of indigenous inhabitants who represent the cultural...
Indigenous People in Peru - publié le 27/07/2006
Essay - 4 pages - Geography
Andean lives, is a pair of autobiographical narratives edited by two young anthropologists in which Gregorio and Asunta, a Peruvian Indian couple, tell their life stories. The story takes place in the highlands of Peru, where millions of indigenous inhabitants who represent the cultural majority,...
Foreign policies of Germany and France between 1919 and 1939 - publié le 27/07/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
France and Germany were during the interwar era one of the key elements of international relations. They were the two most involved powers in World War I. This war was not the last as many people hoped. Once again the two powers were very involved in the Second World War. Therefore, it is...
Foreign policies of Germany and France between 1919 and 1939
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
France and Germany were among the key elements of international relations during the interwar era. They were the two powers that were most involved in World War I. This war was however not the last of its kind as many people hoped, the two powers were soon very involved in the Second World War as...
Describe and analyse the different minority groups in PRC and how they interact with the main 'Han" government
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
In 1927 Sun Yatsen said that "The greatest force is common blood. The Chinese belong to the yellow race because they come from the blood stock of the yellow race. The blood of ancestors is transmitted by heredity down through the race, making blood kinship a powerful force". Today the question...
Describe and analyse the different minority groups in PRC and how they interact with the main 'Han" government - publié le 25/07/2006
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
“The greatest force is common blood. The Chinese belong to the yellow race because they come from the blood stock of the yellow race. The blood of ancestors is transmitted by heredity down through the race, making blood kinship a powerful force”, said Sun Yatsen in 1927. Today the...
What were the central features of Stalinism in Eastern Europe? - publié le 24/07/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
The term "Stalinism" refers to the brutal dictatorship which lasted from 1927 to 1953 in Russia and Eastern European countries. Although he was the leader of Soviet Russia, Stalin soon became the dictator of a Soviet Union which had expanded to most of Eastern Europe after the Second World War....
What were the central features of Stalinism in Eastern Europe?
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
The term “Stalinism” refers to the brutal dictatorship which lasted from 1927 to 1953 in Russia and Eastern European countries. Although he was the leader of Soviet Russia, after the Second World War Stalin soon became the dictator of a Soviet Union which had expanded to most of Eastern...
Why has the historical development of the EU been so uneven?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
On 28th March 2001, Lionel Jospin, the French Prime Minister, made an interesting declaration. He said that: 'Europe is more than a market. It stands for a model of society that has grown historically'. This statement refers to the development of the European Coal and Steel Community...
Why has the historical development of the EU been so uneven? published in 2007
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
On the 28th of March 2001, Lionel Jospin, the French Prime Minister made an interesting declaration: 'Europe is more than a market. It stands for a model of society that has grown historically.' . This statement refers to the development of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in...
The fall of the Oyo Empire
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The Oyo kingdom is located in the south of the actual territory of Nigeria. It expanded from the 16th to the 18th century to become the Oyo Empire, reaching its peak (around 47570km2) in the middle of the 18th century. Less than a century later, in 1836, its capital, Oyo Ile, had been abandoned,...
« The main lesson from 1968 was that communism was unable to reform itself ». Discuss
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
People lost faith in the possibility of reform said Mikhail Gorbatchev during a conversation analyzing the Prague Spring and its consequences. Eastern European socialist countries experienced three attempts aat reform, at two different times. The first wave was a consequence of the...
The rational behind the Rwanda genocide
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Over 1 million Tutsis were brutally murdered by their fellow compatriots over a period of three months, as a reaction to the demise of President Habyarimana in early April 1994 in a plane crash. Several warnings had been issued by NGOs and the RPF but because they were not taken seriously and...
Describe and analyse the different periods of communism in the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1949
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
We will build a new world, a red world said Chieh Fang Chün Pao in 1967. The construction of this promised world was started on October 1st 1949 when Mao proclaimed the PRC and China began the process of developing into a communist State. However China has been a divided nation, both politically...
President of Ireland - Mrs Robinson
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system, is one of the most famous quotes of Mrs Mary Robinson (who was elected President of Ireland in 1990, until 1997) and which surely reveals a key-point in our analysis, the importance of women in society...
Margaret Thatcher
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
In politics, if you want something said, ask a man ; if you want something done, ask a woman, Margaret Thatcher declared in a public interview, after being voted as the head of the Conservative Party in 1975. Well-known as the 'Iron Lady', she was to dominate her time in an imposing way,...
The significance of the Magna Carta
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
The Magna Carta is a charter signed by King John in 1215, during the Middle Ages, a period organized around the system of feudalism. This text embodies an enormous advance politically speaking: it is the basis of the whole English institution. Nevertheless, to discuss the significance of such a...
America on its way to modernity (1800-1860)
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The beginning of the nineteenth Century was mostly rural: indeed the Americans living in the countryside were five times in number than those living in cities. Moreover the nation grew considerably in 1790; there were four million American and seventy years later, there are thirty-nine million....
British Imperialism
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The American War of Independence (1775-1783) is referred to as the end of the first British Empire and as an evolution of the management of the colonies. Britain realized that trade might continue to bring prosperity even in the absence of colonial rule (this contributed to the extension in the...
Political conflict between Dublin's two cathedrals
Essay - 5 pages - Medieval history
Here is in this little city two great cathedral churches, richly endowed and too near together for any good they do . Here Sir John Perrot, an Elizabethan lord deputy, described the peculiar situation of Dublin which since the thirteenth century owed two cathedrals. Although the church of St....
Medieval geographical theories and perceptions of medieval European
Essay - 6 pages - Medieval history
Greeks and Romans amassed a remarkable amount of information about the world, which was known to them, and developed a dense literature about their explorations, and their scholarships drew up sophisticated geographical theories such as, about the earth's shape and size. But, with the...
The impact of the Suez crisis on Britain, Egypt and Israel
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Suez Crisis of 1956 has been commonly seen as a turning point in post war world history, the moment when Britain's pretension to world power status was stripped away, and when Egypt became the leader of the Arab world, an event which triggered a radical change in the relations between...
Debate about the treatment of Indians in sixteenth-century Spain
Essay - 5 pages - Medieval history
Since the discovery of the Caribbean and South America, these territories had been progressively ruled all along the sixteenth-century by Spanish settlers, who looked for labour forces to exploit the new lands for revenue of the Crown and for themselves; and also by missionaries sent by the Crown...
