Historiographical Essay: The China-Japan War‚ 1931-1945 Society for Military History is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize‚ preserve and extend access to The Journal of Military History. http://www.jstor.org Historiographical Essay The China-Japan War‚ 1931-1945 David M. Gordon TW AR‚ Sun Tzu tells us‚ "is of vital importance to the state‚ being the arena in which life or death is decided and the pathway to survival or ruination." The Japanese invasion on 7 July 1937
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TERM PAPER TOPIC: ACCOUNT FOR THE VARIABLES WHICH PRECIPETATED THE COLLAPSE OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC (1960 - 1966) EVALUATE THE PRESENCE OF THOSE VARIABLES IN THE PRESENT DEMOCRATIC DISPENSATION AND STATE THE CONSEQUENCES WRITTEN BY MKPA‚ PRINCE IYANAM PRGM: M.Sc PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REG NO. 10/PG/SS/PA/001 DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY OF UYO SUBMITTED TO DR. FRAK‚ O. E. COURSE LECTURER DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY
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The End of History? – A Reconstruction of Fukuyama’s Thesis. In the closing stages of the Cold War in 1989‚ Francis Fukuyama declared that we were witnessing the end of history. This did not mean the end of events; rather the end of mankind’s ideological evolution. In other words‚ the search for the optimal political and economic system. Fukuyama draws largely on G.W.F. Hegel‚ as interpreted by Alexandre Kojève. For Hegel‚ ‘history’ culminated in an “absolute moment” in which a final‚ rational
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Developing countries have been targeted as being powerless in the current globalizing (micro) world of political domination by authoritarian approaches. The dependency/world system theories appears to be at work‚ where the developing countries are powerless or vulnerable allowing them to be dependent on advanced technologies‚ policies and ideas from their hegemony for economic growth and development as well as political survival. According to Amartya Sen‚ development is the process of economic‚ technological
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The American Revolution began with Britain continuously mistreating and unfairly taxing its thirteen colonies. These colonies saw themselves as separate nations‚ with commercial ties to the same motherland‚ Britain‚ being the only common ground they shared. However‚ the Revolution united them together to fight for a common cause: independence. This unifying sentiment was demonstrated by the “Spirit of ‘76”‚ a common patriotic attitude that was present in America. Primarily focusing on a hope for
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History Revision Resistance and Revolt Slaves resisted enslavement in two ways: Insurrectionary/ Active Resistance Non- insurrectionary/ Passive Resistance Non- Insurrectionary Resistance This form of resistance was subtle and non-violent used by the slaves to convey their rejection to slavery. Methods of passive resistance include: Grand Marronage (Running away for extensive periods) Malingering (Working slowly; effective around harvest time as this would put the planters behind schedule)
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The “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚” seeks to enlighten and‚ inform readers about slavery first hand through the eyes of Frederick Douglass. Douglass not being the only freed slave to write an autobiography‚ but his work being considered one of the most accurate and authentic. Douglass uses his writing to demonstrate what events happen due to the power abuse of slaveholders over their slaves. Frederick Douglass describes with examples from personal experiences‚ the tremendous physical
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The day after Stokely Carmichael introduced the Black Power slogan to the March‚ and consequently brought it to national attention‚ King returned to the March from an engagement and began trying to explain away any of the slogan’s connotations King feared while simultaneously allaying the media and the larger public. He considered the slogan to have unfortunate‚ negative connotations that would be counterproductive to the larger black liberation movement’s goals. As much as “King distanced himself
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instead being stalled while the Dutch prepared to attack them unexpectedly (Ismael‚ 2013). Cuffy recognized Van Hoogenheim’s strategy too late and‚ alongside his followers‚ he was ambushed; they had an unsuccessful final battle. This defeat brought disunity amongst Cuffy’s people and they quickly changed their view about him. They expected to obtain freedom after fighting for an entire year‚ but instead‚ their efforts cost many brave slaves their lives. This was a turning point in Cuffy’s rebellion
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altogether‚ and they did not want to cooperate with the North. They felt they were being exploited and taken advantage of by the North. The economy‚ culture‚ and various ways of life had developed differently throughout the U.S.‚ creating a feeling of disunity. Resolving disputes threw compromise no longer seemed possible. They had no reason to compromise and work out their disputes because the South wanted to form a confederacy of their own. This all began to deteriorate because of the dramatic economic
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