Globalization - Material Processes
Course material - 6 pages - World geography
One interesting thing thinking about globalization is 1498, the first where a Portuguese expedition, sailing ships, manage to navigate around Africa. The Suez Canal did not exist at the time, but they managed to navigate around Africa and reached the reach the coast of India for the first time....
Migration
Course material - 9 pages - World geography
The Lewis model (and, generally, the dual-economy paradigm) implies a rural-urban migration (and full employment). At the same time, data (and casual observation) shows a large unemployed urban population in LDCs. In fact, urban populations often do much worse than the rural residents. Why, then,...
English basics - Culture, politics, sociology
Worksheets - 7 pages - World geography
European Economic Community founded in 1957, by« Inner Six» so France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg. Initially UK, unwilling to join the EU mainly because of its« special relationship» with the US, its Commonwealth and Geographic Localisation. 1960's years she realized...
How Did the Jewish Community Manage to Reconcile War and Democracy in the Creation and Perpetuation of the Israeli State?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
I am going to give you a presentation on democracy and war in the Israeli state, based on the writings of Ran Halevi. Ran Halevi is a French historian, born in 1950, director of research at the CNRS. His research focuses on the political history of France as well as on Israeli political history....
Interview with Zanani (Mandela's daughter)
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Modern history
This exercise is a piece of creative writing designed to simulate an interview with Zanani, Mandela's daughter.
Introduction to British Civilization
Course material - 9 pages - Modern history
In this lecture, we'll be looking at some of the key dates in the history of the UK and looking at recent events that have illustrated the fragility of British nationhood and identity and the very real possibility of the UK as we know it today no longer existing in its present state.
The Korean Border
Presentation - 1 pages - World geography
The document is a presentation of the Korean border between North Korea and South Korea: In the Korean Peninsula, South Korea is separated from North Korea by a strip of land called the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). It was created in 1953 to serve as a buffer zone between the two countries.
Tracts, Volume 1, n° 2 - Peter Force (1836) - Civilisation and History of America according to Peter Force
Text commentary - 1 pages - Pre-modern history
The text presented is an abstract of Tracts, volume 1 number 2, written by Peter Force in 1836, in Washington DC. The first part is an abstract of the Mayflower Compact, a pact written by the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620 during a trip between Plymouth, England and Plymouth, Massachusetts. The second...
Migration in the United States from 1862 to the end of the 19th century
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
"We asked for workers. We got people instead". If this is the way Max Frisch has considered immigration in Europe in the early twentieth century, then rather as a burden than an opportunity, we need to observe that this comes as a completely different matter within the American vision, for which...
Early Modern History
Worksheets - 21 pages - Modern history
Contrary to the contemporary definition, the cities of the early modern era were not defined only according to a threshold of number of inhabitants, continuity of buildings, or command functions. During the Old Regime, a city was certainly a densely populated space, but it was also surrounded by...
Black Slaves' Life
Presentation - 2 pages - Pre-modern history
This document contains slides explaining the life history of black slaves.
Spaces and exchanges
Essay - 2 pages - World geography
In this notion, we talk about Spaces and Exchanges. It is first about the immigration in Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954, it's the legal immigration. To continue with legal immigration, we talk about the Green Card Lottery. Then we can talk about the illegal immigration with the example of...
How did the situation of blacks evolve in the US?
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
When Martin Luther king was young, he had two white friends. They were Martin Luther King's neighbours. One day the mother forbade her boys to play with him. Martin Luther king was sad. Martin Luther King's mother spoke about the civil war to explain herself. It was a war between the...
Phrases (Peace - Defense - Disarmament) and... bases - Viktor Govorkov (1952) - Relations between the United States and the USSR in the early 1950s
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Modern history
On March 12, 1947, the President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, announced his concern about the "Communist threat" before Congress. He thus establishes the American doctrine: "I believe that the United States should support free peoples who resist attempts at enslavement [...]. I believe...
How is the violence against populations expressed during the Second World War?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The Great War resulted in the brutalisation of society and the emergence of totalitarian regimes, which had enormous repercussions on the civilian populations during the Second World War. Totalitarian regimes are political regimes based on a single party, on political police, on the...
The Birth of a Nation: North America
Course material - 5 pages - Pre-modern history
From the period of English colonization to the attainment of independence, various groups of migrants, including the French and Spanish, played significant roles. However, our focus will be on the English migrants who were instrumental in shaping the course of history during this era. The...
Water and Power: A Californian Heist - Marina Zenovich (2017) - The Access to Clean Water in California
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - World geography
California, a state known for its sunny weather and lush agriculture, is facing a water crisis that threatens its very survival. "Water and Power: A Californian Heist" is a documentary that exposes the shocking truth behind this crisis, revealing how corporate greed and political corruption have...
First Address on Chernobyl - Mikhail Gorbachev (1986) - How does Gorbachev depict the Chernobyl disaster?
Text commentary - 4 pages - Modern history
The Chernobyl disaster is considered as the worst nuclear disaster in history. Experts agree on the death of approximately thirty people from immediate blast trauma, but there is a debate on the accurate number of projected deaths due to the long-term health effects. The estimation is around...
Russian Appropriation of Ukrainian Culture
Presentation - 13 pages - Modern history
The history of Slavic people begins around 3,000 years ago in the Pripiat marches. Slavs slowly expand in all directions and find little principalities all over the place. In the 9th century, a Viking by the name of Rurik comes to rule over northern Slavs. In the year 988, King Volodymir baptizes...
American Cultural Aspects for Business
Course material - 11 pages - Modern history
America has been created from the East to the West. The West is a concept in history, for an American it is often associated with the idea of frontier. In the 19th century St-Louis (Missouri) was considered as the gate way to the West, when people went to the West they went directly to Oregon or...
What Were the Greatest 20th Century Innovations?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
As a century of great significance in our modern society, the twentieth century succeeds the Industrial Revolution and was dominated by the first two World Wars, the Cold War, and transformations of the political and social structures across the globe. It was also the time of great technological...
Theories and Critiques Against Military Revolution
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The term military revolution refers to theories that try to explain a series of drastic changes in the military over a period of time. It led to many changes that lasted for a long time in the politics and society in Europe. Michael Robert was the introducer of this theory in the year 1950 as he...
The Role of Industrial Production in Labour Organizing
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Modern history
A look back at the development of the labour movement in Niagara can be traced back to the commercial capitalism facilitated by the construction of the well and canal. In this period, the majority of waged workers involved in the construction were unskilled laborers. Their lack of skills became...
Working People in Alberta - Alvin Finkel (2012) - Labour Movements in Alberta
Text commentary - 3 pages - Modern history
Working People in Alberta by Alvin Finkel traces the history of labour in the country during the first nation's residence to the current occupants. The book describes the movement from interviews with ordinary citizens, activists, and labour leaders. It also draws inspiration from...
How was the perception of Arab Spring and pan-Arabism by local and western approaches?
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
If the Arab Spring has been largely diffused as an unprecedented wave of revolutionary moves into the Arabic world, its connections to a wider global history have often been limited to the tricky issue of pan-Arabism and its underlying questions about nationalism. It all started on December 17,...
History of the Constitution of the United States
Course material - 2 pages - Modern history
In May 1776, Congress passed a resolution advising the colonies to form new governments. By 1777, 11 states had drawn up their own Constitutions (which contained the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence). Those Constitutions were influenced by democratic ideas (role of Enlightenment...
The United States and the World: demography and energy in the world as predictable long-term factors
Course material - 11 pages - World geography
The current policy, and even more the future policy of any country is difficult to assess, because it depends on a lot of factors, many of them (public moods, politics, personalities) being of a transient nature. But the current and future policy of any country also depends largely on long-term...
The Wilsonian tradition and its limits (1914-1945)
Course material - 6 pages - Modern history
President Wilson (1913-1920) renounced isolationism, which was the American tradition since Monroe: in agreement with his progressive agenda, he believed the US had to act abroad. He promoted a new internationalist doctrine. But he failed to convince either the foreign partners of the US, or, at...
The United States and the World: The Sources and Tools of American Foreign Policy
Course material - 8 pages - Modern history
There is undoubtedly an American exceptionalism: the US considers itself since the 18th century to be different from Europe. It has seen itself from the beginning as a universal model: the “American way of life” (linking most strongly liberal democracy and free enterprise, two notions...
The United States and the World - The Reagan Revolution
Course material - 5 pages - Modern history
Ronald Reagan was elected president in November 1980. It was a return to more liberalism, to more individual responsibility, a move towards deregulation of the economy in a more and more globalized world. Reagan was convinced that this return to liberalism was the only way to overcome the...
