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Samuel Adams Radical Puritan
1,041 wordsA Book Review of Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan Historians such as Drew McCoy and Joseph Ellis have produced noteworthy studies of the Founders and their impact on the time period of the American Revolution. Fowler's supplement to this blossoming literature is in many ways a traditional biography. It investigates Samuel Adams's life as it unfolded and pays less attention to the larger conceptual issues that commanded the age. No reader can escape this brief biography without a sense of the person...
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Physical Science Working Class
1,089 wordsWhen George M. Trevelyan states, "that the analogy of physical sciences has misled many historians, " he is talking about the comparison between physical sciences and the reality that history can never really be a true science. Physical science is inevitable and can be proven through data and experiment. There is nothing on the planet that can prove history through data and experiment. When physical science occurs, there is a cause and affect that concurs with the meaning of the happening and wh...
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People Can Relate Pity And Fear
1,241 wordsAristotle was a Greek philosopher around the time 350 BC. He wrote a selection titled Tragedy and the Emotions of Pity and Fear from his work titled Poetics. One of Aristotle concepts is based on imitation. The poet should make his plots and verses on his experiences to imitate real life actions. William Wordsworth was a late seventeenth, early eighteenth century poet. He wrote a selection titled from the preface to Lyrical Ballads. In this work, one of his main points for poems is to choose inc...
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First World War Britain And Germany
2,152 wordsWorld War I, the first globally destructive conflict that the Western Civilization produced, has been the subject of various analysis, interpretations and reevaluations of the various causes that led to it. Initially, the guilt was placed upon Germany and its allies. Eventually, historical analysis conducted in decades after the event, lead to a shift from the guilt perspective, to a broader one of various interacting factors. Although almost nine decades have elapsed, one question still persist...
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Put To Death Marcus Aurelius
2,424 wordsThe first instance of the Roman State taking action against Christians arose in the reign of the Emperor Claudius (41 - 54 A. D. ). The historians Suetonius and Dio Cassius tell us that Claudius had to expel the Jews because they were continually arguing among themselves about a certain Chrestos. "Here we have first mention of the response to the Christian message in the community of Rome, " comments Karl Baus. The historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (70 - ca. 140) was a high-ranking official ...
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Voltaire A History That Never Moved
1,645 words... Voltaire does not labour the point of a progressive essence behind history, other than to realise that the age he lives in is a remarkable age that must have derived from progression. This is the seminal paradox. Yet his history remains a chronology, not a progression. By no means could one assert that there are no forces that move history in Voltaire's eyes. They might lie in masses, though he does not trust revolution since revolution done in the name of reason is often executed by those l...
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Seventeenth Century Century English
1,269 wordsAnthony Grafton and Bruno Latour may be considered as people of knowledge and education. They both were engaged in the process of knowledge acquiring and transforming it into their own ideas and new horizons of thought. For most aficionados, Princeton historian Anthony Grafton put the bon mot in play a few years ago in his elegant The Footnote: A Curious History (Harvard University Press). Now, however, in The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes (Invisible Cities Press), former Amherst Colle...
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Evidence To Support Area Of Study
2,092 wordster> Grave Offenses vs. Tendentious Misconstruals The David Abraham Case The historical field concerning the Weimar Republic, Germany's parliamentary government during the interwar years, is not only an extremely sophisticated area of study, but an extremely competitive one as well. In the early eighties, a much heated and unprecedented scholarly dispute arose surrounding The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, written by David Abraham at the time, a fledgling historian and assistant prof...
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Discuss The Issues Of Perspective And Purpose History
1,100 wordsHistory is a story told over time. It is a way of recreating the past so it can be studied in the present and re-interpreted for future generations. Since humans are the sole beneficiaries of history, it is important for us to know what the purpose of history is and how historians include their own perspective concerning historical events. The purpose and perspective of history is vital in order for individuals to realise how it would be almost impossible for us to live out our lives effectively...
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Critique Of The Historical Debate On Versailles Treaty
1,341 wordsThe treaty of Versailles that closed the First World War was set up as a way to ensure peace. It was hoped that the treaty would ensure that the first world was had been the war to end all wars however this was not to be and the treaty became the subject of much scrutiny pretty much from the get-go. Many of the youthful insiders from the American and British delegations claimed immediately after the conference that Wilson had abandoned his earlier plans and had in effect betrayed his supporters....
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1,187 words... ving have evolved, and how these evolved rules for living have contributed and influenced the stable development of society. In such an approach, history might well prove to be more interesting; it certainly is more instructive. "When the oak tree is felled, the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. Battles and war-tumults, which for the time din every ear, and with joy or terror intoxicate every heart, pass away like tavern-brawls; ...
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Massachusetts Bay Colony Theory Of Motivation
2,714 wordsOne of the most hazardous tasks a historian tackles is determining what motivated the actions of a past society. Even for a present-day society, this task is fraught with perils. Are a society's motivations the sum of its adult participants? Do we give special weight to the goals of its leaders? Should we regard the society's stated goals as accurate communications of motivation, discard them as intentionally deceptive, or dissect those statements as indications of deeper desires that are too pa...
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The Secularization Of European Mind In Nineteenth Century
1,238 wordsThe Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century Owen Chadwicks book The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century explores the decline of Church's influence on European society due to the rise of technology in the nineteenth century. The growth of cities that caused the concentration of people, the availability of press and evolutionary social and philosophical sciences caused the erosion of Church's power. The book includes studies of Marx, Mill and Darwin ...
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Second World War Years In Prison
2,510 wordsInterest Groups Despite the fact that the judicial process in U. S. and West European countries is based on the principle of complete independence from the potential factors of influence, in recent years, we witness the alarming tendency of court decisions being affected by so-called interest groups. Even as far back as fifties, the applying political or cultural pressure on judicial procedures was considered as being utterly inappropriate. But now, the students of law learn that the influence o...
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Eastern Orthodox Sex Unions
1,018 wordsBook Review: Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell The question of same-sex unions and their legitimacy in many different societies is a topic that has been hotly debated for centuries. One society in particular is pre-modern Europe. Noted author and historian Dr. John Boswell looks extensively at the topic of same-sex unions in his book Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Dr. Boswell argues extensively in his book that the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctione...
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Antony And Cleopatra True Love
1,217 wordsAfter the Cleopatra II. Summary: After the completion of the book, it had let me to believe the book was written for the general audience. Although the author provided many resources, the information was taken from literature that was written during the time. Therefore, some of the quotes were biased either against or favored Cleopatra. For an example of bias against her, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus called her a wicked creature, who was a slave to her lusts, but she still imagined that...
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Jean Jacques Rousseau History Of England
2,885 wordsDavid David Hume Humes Life David Hume was the son of a minor Scottish landowner. His family wanted him to become a lawyer, but he felt an insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning. Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University, and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to pursue philosophy. He later returned to Britain and began his literary career. As Hume built up his reputation, he gained more and more political power. Humes Philosophy HUMES WRITINGS In 1742, ...
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Capital Punishment Death Penalty
1,308 wordsThe last public execution in England took place in 1868. The transition of penal practices from torturous public executions to less barbaric and somewhat more humane practices aroused many suspicions in historians. For a better understanding of such changes, one must focus on the ways historians have accounted for this fundamental change. Randall Mc Gowen in his account focuses on the fact that society is becoming more civilized and illustrates the need for more civilized penal practices. Histor...
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Point Of View Human Race
1,705 wordsHistory! The thought of the subject alone sends chills down people s backs. As much as people would like to forget about the past it is something that we must look at, and study carefully. So much can be learned and put to good use for the future. Look at the depression, we can now see just what went wrong and this helps for the future. We can set up social programs and watch the trading in the stock market to make sure that it never happens again. If the time period was forgotten it would be a ...
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Dr Johnson Restoration London Picard
963 wordsLiterary London, warts and all On Grub Street, the ghost of Dr Johnson nods approvingly at the writers of recent tomes about London. Historians Roy Porter and Stephen Inwood have penned centuries-wide panoramas; David Kingston has probed the City as a money mint in four fat volumes. There are biographers of legendary Londoners: Adrian Tinniswsood has renovated Wren, and Clare Tomalin is working on Pepys. There are novelist / historians , led by Peter Ackroyd; and novelists proper Ackroyd again; ...
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