The Space and Time of Ulises In a socio-cultural context of global information technology‚ which is nonetheless full of dichotomies‚ young artists are making efforts to better understand the relationships between real/virtual everyday experience and the historical context of an organised global network operative since the 1960s that has irreversibly fertilised ideas and initiatives. In this they are not alone. A parallel can be seen in the growing contingent of historians and theorists engaged
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Sample Statement of Purpose Statement of Purpose: Please describe your aptitude and motivation for graduate study in your area of specialization‚ including your preparation for this field of study‚ your academic plans or research interests in your chosen area of study‚ and your future career goals. Please be specific about why UC Berkeley would be a good intellectual fit for you. The writer of the statement below was admitted into UC Berkeley’s History Department. With her permission‚ I reprint
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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself. MARX‚ Zur Judenfrage (1844) It has often been mistaken that racism only exists between those who are black and white. This of course‚ has largely been influenced by colonialism and slavery in the New World. Carlos Hoyt Jr in his article‚ ‘The Pedagogy of
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Different types of causes‚ long-term causes and immediate causes for WW1. Long Term: Mutual Defense Alliances * Russia and Serbia (Russia joined in first after war started between Austria-hungary and serbi‚ Russia was Serbias alliance‚ we can say Serbia triggererd the chain reaction) * Germany and Austria-Hungary * France and Russia * Britain and France and Belgium * Japan and Britain Imperialism - Imperialism is when a country increases their power and wealth by bringing
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The first half of the nineteenth century was a time of emergence‚ change‚ and uncertainty in the American Southwest. Randolph B. Campbell celebrates this historical time period in his novel‚ Sam Houston and the American Southwest‚ as well as the life and times of the southwest’s hero himself‚ Sam Houston. Sam Houston provided guidance to southwestern expansion in the United States‚ more than any other individual. Within his novel‚ Campbell describes Houston as a man who possessed courage‚ wisdom
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Dubois’s work which will be considered here is his painting of the St. Bartholomew’s day massacre of 1572. While he may not have been present‚ Dubois was a Calvinist‚ and his close relative Antoine died in the massacre. Fearing continued persecution‚ or at least a reigniting of the wars of religion which had temporarily abated‚ Dubois fled to Lausanne‚ then Geneva to escape. It was in Calvin’s capital where a Lyonnais banker‚ fellow Huguenot‚ and friend of Dubois’s commissioned the painting in order
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1968 in Europe: A Revolutionary Moment? Dr. Rebecca Clifford Modern Europe: A History of Revolution 1789 1848 1871 1917 1945 ...and 1968? [and‚ of course‚ 1989?] Historians on 1968 as revolution Historiography before the 1990s 1968 was a failed political revolution 1998: Historian Arthur Marwick argues in The Sixties that the 1960s was a revolutionary moment‚ but it was a moment of cultural revolution‚ not political revolution Marwick: ‘Slightly hesitantly‚ I am calling this...a
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com/Days-French-Revolution-Christopher-Hibbert/productasdfreviews/0688169783/ref=cm_cr_pr_top_link_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0 Book Project - Paper ORIGIN‚ PURPOSE‚ VALUE‚ LIMITAION The book The Days of the French Revolution was written as a historiography by British historian Christopher Hibbert in 1980. It was published in 1999 by Harper Collins 1. The purpose of this book is to give a detail recount of the events happened during the French Revolution from 1789 to 1795‚ as well as its causes and
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki The morning of August 6‚ 1945 was devastating to Japan. The United States B-29 bomber Enola Gay had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Nicknamed “Little Boy”‚ it was the first nuclear weapon to be used in warfare and packed an explosion equal to that of 20‚000 tons of TNT. Just three days later‚ another bomb‚ called “Fat Man”‚ was released on the industrial city of Nagasaki. Combined‚ the death toll was above 200‚000 people. Leading up to these attacks‚ much research had
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How far has the importance of Trotsky in creating political change in Russia in 1917 been exaggerated? We know that Leon Trotsky was crucial in creating political change in Russia in 1917. We know that in the 1917 Revolution‚ his great orating skills helped further the Bolshevik cause. This is shown in Source 76 with use of “oratorical talent‚ his organising ability‚ first with the army and then with the railways...” and this led to political change as his involvement sped up the Bolshevik take-over
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