In his essay "State Violence as Technique" Peter Holquist states that eliminating certain categories of people, for instance "Kulaks", was performed by Stalin with the purpose of perfecting communism; his essay is coherent and well-written, [...]
The Industrial Revolution was also characterized by the movement of people from rural to urban areas in search of a better life.
In the first part of his work about the reaction and adaptation of the Filipinos to the Spanish culture, John Leddy Phelan outlines a profile of both the conquerors and the conquered, highlighting the commercial [...]
The fall of the Soviet Union marked the end of the Cold War. According to the author of the post, the defective system theory mainly contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
At the risk of their own lives, they brought the only little food that they could get to feed others in the camp.
Regarding, the internal organization, the military-feudal system was established, and the land was owned conditionally because the Sultan had the principal right of proprietorship of all the conquered lands. Moreover, there was a new balance [...]
The theory of Just War is meant to provide a philosophical framework, upon which the use of military force is justified. Was the use of the bomb a last resort?
In the chapter "From Empire to Chimerica," Niall Ferguson traces back the history of the Western financial rise and suggests that nowadays it is being challenged by the developing Eastern world. The hegemonic position of [...]
The chapter "Dreams of Avarice" of the book "The Ascent of Money" explores different stages of development of money functioning in the world by relating them to corresponding historical events.
Various assessments of the events that took place in Iran require an in-depth revision of the history of the constitutional revolution studying its background and impact of this revolution on the subsequent social and political [...]
Proponents of competition assert that throughout history, the growth and development of human societies has always been a factor of competition.
In the very beginning of his book, the author emphasizes that the influences and connections between the empires and the territories they colonized and owned in the past keep lasting decades and even centuries the [...]
The East usually refers to Asia and the Middle East while the West usually refers to Europe and the American continents. The East views the West with contempt in terms of how the Orient values [...]
This essay looks compares some of the political organizations in the history of man's existence in the world. These two are the centralized political units and the decentralized political units.
The coming of the steam engine in the late eighteenth century accelerated man's belief in the capacity to create entire industries and manufacture goods using technology.
Notably, even the discovery of America was indirectly provoked by the fact that the Silk Road stopped delivering spices to Europe and needed a new route to eastern countries due to the campaigns and wars [...]
In "An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa" Falconbridge, who was an eyewitness of the slave trade, describes the way slaves were kidnapped and later sold to the Americans5.
The three documents - A Spanish view of the Cholula massacre, the Florentine codex, and Tlaxalan noblemen meet Cortex and massacre at Cholula - cover the events that took place in the Mexican city of [...]
The Four Voyages of Columbus by Columbus, The Chronicle of The Discovery and Conquest of Guinea by Azurara, and Letters from Mexico by Cortes report the colonial exploits back to the Portuguese and Spanish royalty.
The increase in food production and income from the war led to increased fertility rates among the Irish. The abrupt end of the war in the early nineteenth century precipitated the emigration.
In contrast, Aztec creation stories are based on dismembered gods, and thus the origin of the world is catastrophic violence, which explains why Aztec art depicts divinity as gruesome and awe-inspiring.
The Dominican Republic, a nation of the West Indies, occupies two-thirds of Hispaniola, the largest island in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea.
It dates back to the enactment of the Indian Act in 1876 by the Canadian regime to approve the Indian Status Administration.
The death penalty became legal in America in 1776 during the revolutionary war. The US Supreme court ruled the death penalty as unconstitutional in 1972.
The rule of the Sui Dynasty officially started when Yang Jian with the help of the military overthrew and killed the previous Emperor's family.
Issues associated with the increase in the number of people in the country, unemployment, and decreasing well-being of the communities contribute to the emerging revolts.
The article was written in 1917 when Lenin gave his explanation of why the World War One broke out stating the 'predatory' essence of the powerful states to take over each other economically and politically.
Vietnam is one of the countries in Southeast Asia that experienced the United States involvement in its politics in the 1950s Some of the reasons that have been fronted as having led to the involvement [...]
They further had improved the system to bring water from the mountains to the cities of roman.most of Northwest Europe and almost all lands around the Mediterranean Sea were under the jurisdiction of the vast [...]
The field of traveling contributed a lot to the development of the major sciences of humanity. The analysis of the achievements and trips peculiarities of two well-known travelers Macro Polo and Cabeza de Vaca underlines [...]
In this, it suffered the fate of "imperialism," which after 1900 was adopted by critics of European expansion to serve ideological purposes and used imprecisely to suggest both the annexation of territories and their subsequent [...]
The author analyses the behavior of the Spanish explorers to the region and the resultant behavior and changes that were faced by the local people in the region, namely the American Indians and the Aztecs [...]
The first semi of the twentieth century saw America emerging as a World's wonderful authority, and as one of the grown-up democracies in the middle of the British colonies.
Several circumstances can affect the development of revolutions, such as the level of impoverishment in a society, the degree of inequality, and the division along with ethnic connections. The difference between the maturation of a [...]
The Age of Discovery, or as it is also called the Age of Exploration, was an epoch from the early 15th century and ongoing into the early 17th century, throughout which European vessels journeyed around [...]
Throughout the essay, he puts a lot of words and phrases in quotation marks to underline the unique and figurative meaning of these phrases.
The goal of this paper, therefore, is to discuss the manner in which self-directed learning has helped me to understand the topic concerning ancient history in Greece and Rome.
Also, an overview of the impacts on the Arab World is provided to enhance the understanding of the issue and its significance for the region. First, the military performance of the empire was in a [...]
In addition, it is important to concentrate on the idea that events and experiences of the past can influence the development of an entire nation.
To achieve the intended goals, many progressives began by exposing the major evils and challenges that were affecting the United States towards the end of the 19th century.
The concept of authority can be described as the link between administrators who determine the main points of a particular policy and people who take full responsibility to follow and perform that policy in a [...]
A Conversation with the African-American Ghetto" helps to realize the importance of knowledge of a longer history of the Jewish ghettos and their possible connection to and impact on the African-American ghettos, US segregation policies, [...]
Tanzania is the country with a rich history that began with the migration of the first Cushitic tribes, continued with its colonization by Germany and Britain and its struggle for independence, and resulted in the [...]
The voyages were made in the Caribbean and Central America between 1492 and 1504 following the consent granted to him by the monarch. In the course of his expedition, he discovered and named the Island [...]
The Industrial Revolution started in 1760, while the French revolution started in 1789 and ended in 1799. The Industrial Revolution was established in England in 1760 and lasted until the late 1840s.
8 million people live in the Republic of Ireland while the rest inhabit Northern part of Ireland and is part of the United Kingdom.
Schelling proposed that the power of deterrence in the nuclear age is pegged not only on the equality or balance of the nuclear-possessing countries, but on the "stability of the balance".
Evidently the perception of South Africa as an overseas investment saw the exclusion of the locals in the participation of the mining business.
In this system, the means of product and service production is mainly carried out and owned by the individuals instead of the government while communism also known as fascism is contrary to this where production [...]
In the text, the author describes the period as important because it led to the establishment of new empires and political structures.
The historical recordings of past events are very important in the understanding of the actual happenings, analysis of the flow of past events, understanding the factors influencing past occurrences, explanations of the effects of such [...]
As it can be seen in the video The Chinese are Coming, the most distinctive features of how the Chinese approach the task of expanding the sphere of their influence in Africa, can be outlined [...]
The uprising that has been witnessed in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and now Syria is a reaction to leaders who have used the rule of law for their own personal gain and at the expense of [...]
The shift from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement. Major Changes in Means of Production.
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union was marked by Operation Barbarossa, the primary purpose of which was the rapid seizure of the western part of the territories of the USSR for the subsequent settlement [...]
Some thought the history of Africa started with the story of the Europeans in Africa, followed by African historiography. Therefore, it led to the misconception that Africa has no history and created a gap in [...]
The rapid rise of Idi Amin to power and the subsequent seizure of the government that ruled Uganda at the time demonstrates that unethical people will seek to establish control over citizens as soon as [...]
While each of the four issues deserves attention, the desire of Athens to control all the other states of Greece seems to have served as the major impetus for the Peloponnesian Wars outbreak.
What was the role of the inquisition group in religious practices? To assess the roles of the inquisition group in religious practices.
Jared Diamond is among such scientists, and his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, comments on how ancient cultures developed and explains why Eurasia dominated the rest of the world.
It is a unique knowledge base that can teach individuals, and, at the same time, it is the core component of the world's further evolution.
Marco Polo served for 17 years at the court of the Khan, and following his order, he traveled to almost all provinces of modern China and wrote a book about the country.
Today, "the Yoruba people occupy the South-Western part of Nigeria, they account for about 20% of the population of the country". According to experts, "the Yoruba people are mainly involved in the financial, press and [...]
The paper will start with an overview of the prerequisites for Indian liberation following the role of the Indian Independence Act.
The Zulu people live on the continent of Africa, in the southern part of it, which is known as KwaZulu-Natal. In this family, the husband stands for the chief, and institution of marriage is hallowed.
The five stages in the economic determinism of history can be summarized as follows; Primitive hunting and gathering societies had no extra wealth and therefore no private property, social classes, class struggles, or even the [...]
Therefore, the subsequent revolutionary event in California's history following the Gold Rush was "the war".irrespective of the challenges faced by some Asians and Europeans in the battle, a majority of Americans were unwilling to join [...]
Puchner shows how people realized that kings and queens were not immortal, the differences between the diverse social classes, and the relationships between men and women. He reveals the relationship between humanity and nature and [...]
The Cold War became a global geopolitical, military, and economic confrontation between the two blocs of states, the centers of which were the United States and the USSR, from 1946 to the end of 1980.
In the past decades, obesity was more prevalence among adults but this has changed with the increased rates of obesity among the adolescents and children. This paper has focused on the past history of obesity [...]
Although the fighting efficiency of the Nazi troops decreased due to a decrease in the number of available equipment and the transfer of auxiliary units to the front, it was still a formidable force.
The period of the 1970s 2000s is the most vivid for understanding the impact of the process of globalization and changes in the world order.
Among the examples of significant social movements in history is the Free Software movement, which led to the development of GNU/Linux and other free and open-source software products.
Wherein, the time of the stock market emergence was the time of the ongoing "carnival," where the mystical power of money transferred to miraculous products and medicines and compelling advertisements.
At the same time, inside of the country the Government was facing a threat from the Communist protesters. He called these threats "the disease of the heart" and "the disease of the skin".
The large revenue from oil has stirred the growth and development of the other sectors of the economies thus widening the economic belt of these Arab states.
This paper deals with the discussion of the work of historians, our own perception of history and its usage in modern life, as history is one of the main sources for creation of the movies [...]
Colonialism is the political ideology that legalizes the invasion, occupation, and exploitation of a given land by stronger states which use their military powers thus displacing the powers of the original inhabitants of the land.
The Spanish and Vikings were similar in the sense that they were both settlers who managed to explore the American region.
Another factor that led to the partitioning of the countries was the strong ideological divide that existed between Muslims and Hindus in India.
United States, which sustained the minimal damage during the apocalyptic war, was elevated to the status of the savior of the new world in the west whilst mighty Soviet Union whose winters not only mercilessly [...]
History is a part and parcel of society and has to be appreciated if the present and the future are something we look forward to and plan to make better.
Castro was proud of being a Cuban and he strived to create the Cuban identity. Castro deprived Cubans of the rights to life, liberty, and property.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, three major Muslim empires were formed and established namely; the Mughal empire, which dominated the greater India, Safavid which ruled the greater Iran, and the Ottoman Empire which ruled [...]
The nation as a whole must have been relieved after the breakdown of the Soviet Union and the unification of East and West Germany.
By the end of the 16th century, Britain had taken over the Dutch colonies of New Netherland and New Amsterdam {now jointly New York}, and the Swedish colony of New Sweden {now Delaware}; the European [...]
The end of the century was marked by more positive happenings, such as the collapse of the communist regime and gaining of independence by many countries.
The Zulu nation had been invaded by Voortrekkers and up to the time it was subdued by the British, it had fought numerous battles and even when the Zulu finally lost to the British, they [...]
The ideas inherent to the philosophy of the Enlightenment changed the course of history and gave rise to the French Revolution and the start of the Constitution of the United States, human rights, and the [...]
This revolution prevented food emergencies in Latin America and Asia during the 1970s and 1980s. However, the revolution was not a successful tactic in ending global food shortage and hunger.
By looking at Orientalism from the most general dimension, as the study of people's culture with respect to some other significant culture, the essay presents the ways in which the representation of Asia in the [...]
In the means to defining what money is, most of the scholars from the psychological and physiological field have come up with the theoretical aspects of money and the ways it influences the economic growth [...]
In his arguments, Edward Said claims that the Europeans categorized the world into two divisions; the Occidents and the Orientals, in other words, they were referring to a world of the civilized and the primitive.
What is important is the value that people place on whatever unit they refer to as amoney.' Money acts as a medium of exchange and an element of measurement of the value of goods and [...]
The primary impact of the treaty was that it extended American citizenship to the Mexicans living in the ceded territory. The most important article of the treaty was IX because it gave the Mexicans the [...]
For instance, it may take up to 70 days to complete the entire process of mummification since it is done with extra caution to achieve the much needed perfection.
This is a scenario that has occurred with the Nazi, under the command of Adolf Hitler, and the story of Jim Jones, and the people who followed him in a quest to build an ideal [...]
The history of the Mi'kmaq communities explains how they were created by Glooscap. The Mi'kmaq communities were also spiritual.
The medieval age lasted between the fifth and the fifteenth century in Europe and it started with the collapse of the Roman Empire.
The present is a myriad of events in the past. As a historian, the study of these preserved artifacts is important in knowing about the past.
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 in which the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the United States were involved was the turning point of the states' confrontation in the Cold War because of risks to develop [...]
In spite of the evolution of a uniquely Australian cricket in the country, the mark of imperialism and Anglo dominance remained.
In the period of 1933-1939, which encompasses Hitler's rise to power that saw a sustained persecution of Jews in Germany and the pogroms, which culminated in the Night of The Broken Glass, the reception of [...]
In this paper, I will explore the validity of the above-stated at length, while promoting the idea that the very emergence of the term 'total war' cannot be discussed outside of the fact that, throughout [...]
From the census, it is clear that the culture and the cuisine Hawaii, which are known today, were created by the history of the migration of Japanese to Hawaii when they settled there to work [...]
The supporters of humanistic theory agree with the ideas of great influence of people on the development of science. The emergence of the Western culture has given rise to the development of new directions of [...]
The activities of this era resulted in the interaction of people from different backgrounds and linked most parts of the world together.
The authors address the viewpoint that Islam is one of the major causes of conflicts which took place in the world lately.
Secondly, the stage of 'preconditions of take-off' is characterised by the spread of the idea of the possibility of economic prosperity which is a necessity for other desired societal conditions. The last stage of economic [...]
The slaves in the Ottoman Empire were often obtained from the Crimean Tatars who engaged in the capture and selling of slaves.
Aspects such as gender and race were rarely used to group people because a large proportion of the population was focused on taking advantage of industrialization.
First, since 1914, the world was featured by global integration and its changing patterns that led to: immense colonies and powers, the three worlds of Cold War eras, and the current interdependent and networked of [...]
The paper examines the history of love starting from the ancient times then to the medieval chivalry and finally the contemporary period.
Just to sample the impact technological changes had on the general demographical patterns of England and Wales, a technological invention to improve the smelting of Coke saw the shift in population growth from the South [...]
The region of Mesopotamia gave birth to two of the most powerful ancient civilizations, Sumer and Babylonia, characterized by sophisticated division of authority and labor, the earliest forms of government and law, and a clear [...]
The notion of opposing the established order is present in both the communist manifesto and the Romantic Movement. The value of nature was underlined in both the Communist Manifesto and the Romantic Movement.
In the English colonies, the population comprised Europeans, Africans, and Indians. The French colonies were more lenient and more loyal in their policies.
Protecting religious institutions and advancing religious education are mentioned in the General Act of the Congo Free State, which shows the desire of the European powers to spread Christianity among the native people.
It may happen if, for example, the author of the original source made a mistake, and in this case, one does not have the opportunity to double-check the information.
Admittedly, scientific culture and curiosity, the need for glory, seeking to spread religion, and the desire for economic dominance, are the main factors that resulted in the rise of the Age of Exploration in Europe.