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  • Reconstruction: Tackling the Confederacy’s Roots

    Table of Contents Introduction Main Aspects Conclusion References Introduction The reunited US after the civil war may be described as fascinating melange between completely different worldviews on crucial social issues that permeated all aspects of life, from economic to political. Faragher, Buhle, Czitrom, and Armitage (2012) outline the Reconstruction era as a way for the…

  • Continuity in the UK Defence Policy Since 1945

    Overall, it is fair to say that the war brought many changes to Great Britain. The war economy peaked in 1943 when dozens of large military factories were operating in the country. Many civilian industries, including export ones, were reoriented to produce weapons and military equipment production. In 1943, the most significant amount of military…

  • Consequences of South African Apartheid

    The Apartheid was the racial segregation that lasted from 1948 to 1994 in South Africa when the discrimination occurred, forcing the affected people to leave their homelands and prevent the regions from developing. The regime appeared during the post-World War II period when many countries suffered from economic and social damage and had to revise…

  • Imperial China. The Tang Dynasty

    Chang’an City is the capital of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty is regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization that equals or even surpassing the earlier Han Dynasty. It is also considered the golden age of cosmopolitan culture. It was developed during the Sui Dynasty circa AD 581 to AD 618.…

  • Imperial China. Han vs. Qing Dynasty

    The Qin gained power in 221 BC; they existed during the Warring State Period and were the first to unify China. Shi Huangdi, the First Emperor, set the tradition for having emperors as rulers in China. Notably, the Qin was militarily the strongest, but not culturally advanced. They introduced new technologies, cavalry in particular. In…

  • History. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano

    In the early days of the slave trade, conceivably, 65 percent had been captives of wars. Over the next century, it has been premeditated that upwards of 75 percent were kidnapped. Many of these were the sufferers of the influential and centralized states of Dahomey and Ashanti, which had emerged in large part in response…

  • Canada: The Group of Seven and Northern Development

    The Group of Seven and Northern Development by Paul Walton tells the Great Transformation of Canada and related opposing viewpoints, driven by the agrarian myth and the myth of progress. It began with the acquisition of vast resource-rich areas located on the Precambrian shield (Walton, 1990). The Group of Seven were commercial artists attracted by…

  • Political Thinking For an East Asia Context

    Introduction Chinese civilization has been considered to be the longest continuous civilization on earth. The system of the Chinese dynasty gave it a bureautic control against a system that in the end was advantageous to the Chinese agrarian system than the neighboring nomadic and hill cultures. The civilization of China was also boosted by the…

  • The Difference Between Northern and Southern States

    In the 1840s, there were three major sectional differences in economy, politics, and states’ rights between northern and southern states of the United States. One should be aware of the fact that during the given period, there were far fewer people in the South than in the North. It is due to the economic divergences…

  • Southwest and East Asian Historical Development

    Table of Contents Introduction Political institutions Economic institutions Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Southwest and East Asia have a long history of the development of societies and socio-political institutions. As for the Southwest Asia, due to mild climate and fertile soil its early development of food production and animal domestication resulted in the emergence of many…