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- 671: Maurice Agulhon. The Republica
- ... in much more detail in the book. The book information really did not differ in the views that were depicted in the textbook. Both sources were good detailed accounts of history during the republican era. The importance and purpose of this book was to give the audience or the reader complete and detailed accounts of the French Revolution. The author’s ... If the Republic was better know during the forties and able to win supporters from beyond the restricted circle of republican survivors and their immediate, this was the achievement of History. The History of the Revolution had come into being many years earlier, under the Restoration, during the period when those who rallied to the white flag were in power.”Pg.3 ...
- 672: American Indians Between 1609
- ... America. In 1875, president Ulysses S. Grant gave a small reservation to the Shoshone tribe because he was impressed by the Lemhi s unique role that they have in Western history and record of cooperation with the American settlers when in the summer of the same year, the Americans were running low on food, without fresh horses and had little idea ... the Salmon River county on the Idaho-Montana border so it can become a place where the Shoshone tribe can tell its story to the hordes of Lewis and Clark history buffs, honor their dead and try to stitch some of their past history to the present. If Sacagawea wouldn t been there to help them, the whites would have died. I think that the United States should pay better respect to the ...
- 673: The Ss
- ... former associate professor at West Point and wrote twenty other books about World War II. The other general consultant was George H. Stein who was a distinguished teaching professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton, and received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. He, like Col. John R. Elting, wrote and translated many books on Hitler. He published numerous articles on modern European history, and served with the United States Air Force from 1953 to 1957. Also with a team of over twenty editors and another twenty correspondents around the world this book ...
- 674: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt
- ... Bible; and Greek sciences and, especially, art were originally influenced by Egypt. Finally, archaeology and historical writing have made Egypt a subject of general public interest. The image of Egyptian history moves continually closer to reality as new facts are discovered and new kinds of research--anthropological and other--supplement more traditional archaeological techniques. Egypt's well preserved pyramids and cemeteries ... town mounds and all sites in densely settled northern Egypt now receive more attention than previously. Funerary and temple inscriptions survived well, but they paint an idealized, oversimplified picture of history and society. Papyrus texts and ostraca (pottery fragments) are rarer but more realistic. They now are better studied and are supplemented by new types of archaeological analysis (see Egyptology). Environment strongly affected history. In a largely rainless climate, Egypt's agricultural productivity depended on a long but very narrow floodplain; on average 19.2 km (11.9 mi) wide, it reached a ...
- 675: African Colonialism
- ... policies on many times reflect what their past was like. This is very true in the case of Africa. The only problem is that Africa is said to have no history. This just means that Africa s many cultures did not affect the way imperialists and other influences acted towards the huge continent. Everything was based on their interests and consequently ... s present stage and what must be done to undo what is wrong and hopefully correct this situation. Africa first played a role in Europe s and the America s history when the U.S. and Great Britain needed labor. They needed a lot of it and they needed it cheap. There was nothing cheaper than free labor. It would require ... version of the west. They tried to set up schools, hospitals and other bureaucracies that were successful back home. Many people would argue that because of this Africa had no history. More specifically this means Europe molded Africa s history. They did not let the African nations play out their destiny themselves. When Europe set up governments in their colonies ...
- 676: Jazz Age
- Jazz Age Jazz is a type of music developed by black Americans about 1900 and possessing an identifiable history and describable stylistic evolution. It is rooted in the mingled musical traditions of American blacks. More black musicians saw jazz for the first time a profession. Since its beginnings, jazz ... feel. Most jazz is based on the principle that an infinite number of melodies can fit the chord progressively of any chord. The twenties were a crucial period in the history of music. Revolutions, whether in arts or matter of state, create a new world only by sacrificing the old. Jazz had been centered in three or four major cities for ... twentieth century. This style began during the late 1920s and continued to the 1940s. Most jazz from the 1930s and early 1940s is called “swing music,” and this time in history is now known as “the swing era,” the remarkable period in American musical history when jazz was synonymous with American’s popular music, its social dances and its musical ...
- 677: How Did Athens Take Over The L
- During the period of Greek history from the last years of the Persian Wars tillthe beginning of the First Peloponnesian War, the primacy of Sparta declined while Athens was gaining increased influence in Greece. The Athenian ... Greek naval power. This gave Athens the opportunity to create, in the years to come, an extensive empire over the newly won territories which had no parallel in earlier Greek history. A new political order emerged among the Greek states centred on the two great powers of Athens and Sparta that was to have a profound effect on later Greek history. Soon after the end of the Persian Wars, the Athenians started rebuilding the walls around their city previously destroyed in the war. According to Thucydides, when Sparta heard about ...
- 678: Atomic Bomb 2
- ... The immediate effects of these bombings were simple. The Japanese government surrendered, unconditionally, to the United States. The rest of the world rejoiced as the most destructive war in the history of mankind came to an end . All while the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki tried to piece together what was left of their lives, families and homes. Over the course ... penetrate every fabric of American existence. From our politics to our educational system. Our industry and our art. Historians have gone so far as to call this period in our history the atomic age, for the way it has shaped and guided world politics, relations and culture. The entire history behind the bomb itself is rooted in Twentieth Century physics. At the time of the bombing the science of physics had been undergoing a revolution for the past thirty- ...
- 679: Essay On Kierkegaard
- ... to the fact that we cannot decide to perceive blueness when looking at a red apple. This is an issue that has attracted some interest in the course of the history of thought. In this paper I will be looking into the views of a contemporary author who sees the relationship of willing to belief as an issue recurring thoughout the history of philosophy. In his book Religious Belief and the Will2, Louis Pojman identifies Soren Kierkegaard as a direct prescriptive volitionalist, i.e. a thinker who holds that beliefs can and ... s view that Kierkegaard is a volitionalist In Religious Belief and the Will, Pojman offers an overview of how the relation of willing to faith and belief varies throughout the history of western thought. He provides descriptions of various well-known thinkers in order to illustrate types of volitionalism, and he presents arguments intended to undermine the validity and coherence ...
- 680: Julius Caesar: Addaddination
- Gaius Julius Caesar: The Assassination Rome is a place of great historical achievements. Rich in history, it reveals to us a great deal about man and society. One of the most important characters in history is Gaius Julius Caesar. His very name strikes images of a powerful leader. Responsible for bringing Rome to great heights, he is said to be the man who changed the course of history, accomplishing the impossible and helping to further the Roman Empire. His military skill and excellent political knowledge, brought him great power. Yet having survived brutal battles on foreign soil, ...
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