The influence of the American Revolution on the French Revolution: An analysis of parallels
Thesis - 4 pages - Modern history
The late 18th century was a period of great societal transformation in both North America and Continental Europe. Inevitably, the ideas of the enlightenment coupled with the social and religious unrest in both the United States and France prompted action on the part of the educated masses....
The dream: American or European?
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Throughout The European Dream, Jeremy Rifkin explains how he believes the American Dream has become out-dated. Ever since World War II, the American Dream has put an emphasis on economic growth, personal wealth, and independence (Rifkin, pg. 13). Rifkin believes that in the new American way of...
Hitler's appeal
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
During the late 1920s, support towards the Nazis grew stronger and stronger. Although the Nazi appeal began with the support of middle class Germans, it quickly became appealing to the German elites as well. Along with this, it was not only the men who supported the Nazis, but the German women as...
Allies forever
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
After the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union allied together to dismantle Nazi Germany, a new war quickly approached the American people. This time, the United States was at war with one of its former allies; the Soviet Union. Although the thought of another war put fear into...
From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer
Thesis - 2 pages - Medieval history
The different tribes of Jutes, Saxons, and Angles went over to England at intervals, and each tribe established a different dominion in its own. By the end of the sixth century at least seven kings ruled the different parts of the country, and began to struggle for supremacy. Two centuries later...
America's new deal
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Historians today consider the Great Depression to be one of the darkest times in American history. The economy was at an all time low and in desperate need of assistance. President Franklin D. Roosevelt devised a plan called the New Deal. The New Deal was a series of government enforced...
Americans and the Second World War (WW2)
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
World War II for Americans was considered by most to be “the good war”, it got the United States out of the depression and American patriotism and pride were at an all time high. Core values of Americans such as honesty, freedom, pride, peace, hope, and liberty were written in streamers...
The nation and territory of the Arab World
Thesis - 3 pages - Medieval history
A nation is a human group that shares a common history, culture, language or ethnic origin, and thus forms a political community, based on a defined set of territory or territories and personified by a sovereign authority. The nation is an essential set of geographical and geopolitical entities....
The history of the Mediterranean 1798-1956
Tutorials/exercises - 24 pages - Medieval history
The history of the Mediterranean region deals with the interaction of cultures and people of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea which was the central superhighway of transport trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples. This history is important in order to understand the...
The political history of Cyprus
Thesis - 5 pages - Medieval history
Cyprus is the third largest Island in the Mediterranean. The Republic of Cyprus has sovereignty over the entire island of Cyprus except small portions that are allocated to the United Kingdom as military bases. Its political setup is complicated by the fact that it is divided into two main...
The history of the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria (1260-1517)
Thesis - 7 pages - Medieval history
For nearly 300 years the Mamluks were one of the greatest powers of the Middle Eastern Muslim World. They achieved the status of the strongest dynasty after having served as slaves for the Sultans before them. They emerged from their subservience to rule over Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Hejaz...
Essay analysis on sexuality, identity and homosexuals
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In Halperin's “Is There a History of Sexuality”, he explains that sex as an act is a natural and universal phenomenon and thus has no history. On the other hand, he clarifies that there is a history of sexuality, although it is a fairly recent history and is socially constructed. By...
Roaring twenties (1920's)
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The twenties may initially seem like a time of innovation in terms of technological advances, pop culture's immense growth, and a major boost in the economy along with many other advances that would make this time period seem to make a “roar” to America waking us up and making us better...
The terrible twenties
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
While it is common practice today to refer to the 1920s as the “Roaring 20's”, the reality of the situation in the 20s was that of despair and disparity. Economic inequality riddled the American economy, with the prosperous upper class lording over the middle class and chock-full lower...
The army of Netherlands in the sixteenth century
Thesis - 4 pages - Medieval history
Netherlands is a sovereign state with its territories stretching from Northern France to the North Sea. Revolt against the Spanish led to the division of the country (Netherlands) distinguishing it into Southern Netherlands that remained under the Spanish rule. After a long war of eighty years...
New York: A symbol of the modern United States of America (USA)
Thesis - 6 pages - Medieval history
At the end of the sixteenth century, New York was dotted with islands, with a rich fishing area populated by several thousand Indians. Sailors from Holland visited the area more often since the early seventeenth century which gave it the name "New Amsterdam," before a massive increase in English...
The birth of a mass society in Europe
Thesis - 8 pages - Medieval history
A corporation is defined as a group of people who are organized and share a common culture, norms and values. Thus, society may be defined as a heterogeneous group of people distinguished by their social status possessing equal rights. They may benefit from the society irrespective of their...
The crusaders as the architects of the East-West relationship in the middle ages
Thesis - 5 pages - Medieval history
In this summary of the eight crusades that extended from 1095 to 1270 AD French historian Jacques Goffau opined that “‘arguably, the only fruit of the Crusades kept by the Christians was the apricot.” Irrespective of their outcome, the crusades remain as the most important event of...
The US-Soviet conflicts in World War II
Essay - 1 pages - Modern history
There were many conflicts between the U.S. and the USSR during World War II as the alliance between the two countries was held together only by their common desire to defeat Germany and Japan, not by any common ideology. A new conflict arose from the question of security. At the Yalta Conference...
Who had the right to rule Vietnam?
Thesis - 1 pages - Modern history
After 1,500 years of foreign rule, a self-governing Vietnam began to look promising in the 1950s. With the objective of gaining independence and removing French occupation from Vietnam, a conflict began between the French and the Vietnamese nationalists, known as the Vietminh. When France...
France in World War II
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
France's lack of preparation for World War II led to 4 years of harsh occupation and memories that rather be forgotten. The French were ignorant in the years leading up to the war and the result was a quick victory by the Germans. The speed and ease in which the French were conquered and the...
Motivation for United States to enter the World War II
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
The intervention of the United States in WWII was not caused by the plight of the Jews interned in concentration camps or because of the threat of Japan, but for the purpose of defending Britain and France and stopping the spread of German dictatorship through Europe. The United States adopted...
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...
Orientalist Scholarship, the Conquest of India and the Events of 1857
Thesis - 4 pages - Medieval history
Britain's conquest of India was not an occupation in the conventional sense. Although England did have a military and economic presence on the sub-continent for over 200 years, the source of their power lay in a control of India's knowledge. England came to dominate the country through the...
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...
Facundo's barbarism vs Armiento's civilization
Thesis - 2 pages - Medieval history
Sarmiento's Facundo presents a biased historical account of Argentine history and the struggle between “barbarism and civilization” taking place during the 17th century in Argentina. Sarmiento's political aims of spreading European culture, which he deems to be civilized, and of uniting...
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...
