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18th Century Muslim Reform Movements

Western conquest, similar movements were directed wholly or in part against Westerners. These include the Wahhabis and Faraizis of...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

Booker T. Washington and the African American Experience

In six pages this paper considers what the African American experience was like during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth cent...

Christopher Hill's Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

of the text we can see that Hill is taking the reader on a very structured journey which examines the turmoil in 17th century Euro...

Western Roman Emperors and Power Disintegration

When discussing the fall of the Roman empire, what is actually being discussed is the fall of the "western" empire (including Ital...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

Copernicus and Astronomical Theories

constructions called the eccentric, the epicycle and the equant. In the eccentric, the Earth is placed just outside of the center ...

1900 to 1921 Foreign Policy of the US

came to be the inciter of "a series of huge blows" (1995, PG) that would endanger the very presence of capitalism as it existed in...

England's Civil Wars and Their Possible Causes

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

US Catholic Revivalism

Dolans work is particularly concerned with looking at Catholic history from a standpoint which does rely solely on a narrow eccles...

17th Century Conflict Between English Colonists and Native Americans

They would found the first permanent English colony, New England. Some twenty-one thousand would arrive between 1630 and 1642 (Re...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Supernatural

In five pages this paper examines how supernatural and ghosts were perceived by society during the 19th century in an analysis of ...

Rebecca Foster's 1789 Rape

for the entire community provided the basis upon which its historical evidence might be knowingly skewed to help support the notio...

Nursing and Global Perspectives

on a global scale. Therefore, for nurses to succeed in the complex world of the twenty-first century, many authorities feel th...

19th Century Innovation of Journalism

Towers, 1997). The coranto generally would appear weekly, and it contemplated global news as well (1997). This sounds very similar...

World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...

Great Britain's Conservative Politics and Democracy from 1911 to the Early 1930s

voting public, there was created a greater sense of fairness, accomplishment and "political vision of liberty."3 However, too man...

Victorian Literature and Class Consciousness

In 5 pages the Victorian class consciousness that reached a pinnacle during the mid to late 19th century is examined as it is refl...

Irish Home Rule and William Gladstone

In ten pages this paper discusses the relationship that existed between Ireland and Great Britain during the close of the 19th cen...

Scientific Quest and Realism

In five pages this paper discusses the quest for scientific knowledge that began during the 17th century and considers the develop...

Maesta Altarpiece in the Cathedral of Siena by Duccio di Buoninsegna

This twelfth century altarpiece is the focus of a report consisting of seven pages in an examination of how altarpieces during thi...

Reformation Concepts of Skepticism and Faith

ways. The year that Luther proclaimed his differing religious beliefs, the year of 1517, was the year in which Magellan and his f...

Life of an English Commoner from 1800 to 1850

In ten pages an English commoner's life as it was lived during the first half of the 19th century is considered with original test...

Racial Oppression and the Black Response

In ten pages this paper discusses American racial oppression and the black response to it during the nineteenth and twentieth cent...

18th Century European Power Struggles

In twelve pages this paper discusses the power struggles that took place throughout the various European states during the 18th ce...

An Analysis of the Novel, Princess of Cleves

This paper analyzes Madame de Lafayette's book, Princess of Cleves and the French court during the sixteenth century. This five p...

Contextual Style Article on Medieval England

In five pages this paper is written in the style of an old English article on country living during the fifteenth century with iss...

Old English Poem 'The Dream of the Rood'

In five pages this paper analyzes this poem within the context of English life during the 7th and 8th centuries and the relationsh...

Chile and Brazil Democratization

In six pages democratization in these two South American countries are examined in terms of effects from the last century and thei...