Menzel’s Iron Rolling Mill and the German Industrial Revolution: Political‚ Social‚ and Artistic Representations of German Industry in the 1870s Françoise Foster-Hahn explains how Menzel’s Iron Rolling Mill represented a new vision of industry and how the new German government used it to present a modern‚ progressive vision of German history: ”In all these industrial portraits [William Bell Scott‚ Iron and Coal‚ Industry of the Tyne‚ 1861 (Wallington Hall‚ Northumberland); John Ferguson Weir
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military. A few would include their rank structure‚ capabilities‚ as well as the equipment. These characteristics could mean a number of things for the United States military and the people of the country. (U) The rank structure for the North Koreans are pretty similar to that of the US. It contains its lower members‚ like our privates‚ its NCO’s‚ as well as its officers. We can assume that the way their military operates would be the same based on the fact that their rank structure is very similar to
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Why did Nationalism Fail! In 1815‚ at the end of the Napoleonic wars the Deutscher Bund was created which include all 39 German states‚ but this was not a united Germany. By 1850‚ there had been several attempts to united Germany but all failed and Germany remained divided. WHY DID THEY FAIL- LINE OF ARGUMENT – FACTORS Austria opposition Prince Metternich (Austrian Minister) was strongly opposed to German nationalism and was a major obstacle to the unification of Germany‚ as Austria was one
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"Napoleon’s tragedy was that his ambitions surpassed his capacities; Bismarck’s tragedy was that his capacities exceeded his society’s ability to absorb them. The legacy Napoleon left for France was strategic paralysis; the legacy the Bismarck left for Germany was unassimilable greatness"(statement made by Henry Kissinger) is in my opinion a correct statement. This statement can actually be separated into two parts. The first parts relates with the capacities‚ ambitions and successes of Bismarck
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Napoleon Bonaparte‚ who dissolved the Holy Roman Empire and turned the German states into French puppets. Both the American and French Revolutions served as templates for the later revolutions of the early nineteenth century. The Revolution of 1848 gave Otto von Bismarck his chance to rise to preeminence in Prussian government‚ and the previous abuse of German autonomy at the hands of Napoleon’s armies gave Bismarck the ideological impetus to unify the German states at French expense. The Franco-Prussian
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2/18/2013 EA332 Botchan Essay Botchan: A microcosm of the lessening importance of ancestry and social rank in the Meiji Restoration In the novel Botchan‚ author Natsume Sōseki tells the story of a young Tokyoite cast into the rural countryside of Japan to work as a mathematics teacher. This literary masterpiece has struck resounding cords in the heart of Japanese society since its publication in 1906‚ partially because of its humor as the narrator‚ Botchan‚ is the butt of pranks orchestrated by
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“Truth and the Historian” Main argument This is both an introduction to the book and an essay about the causes of World War I‚ as seen by other historical writers and Lafore himself. He states that “World War I has become a fashion and a fad‚” and‚ while there is nothing wrong with the topic being widely discussed‚ historians should be careful in using research and analyzing historical topics. The introduction outlines the sources of the conflict that later was known as the Great War. All of the
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From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search In A Dry Season Inadryseasonrobinson.jpg Author(s) Peter Robinson Country Canada Language English Series Inspector Alan Banks‚ #10 Genre(s) Crime novel Publisher Macmillan Publication date 1999 Media type Print (Hardback)‚ (Paperback) ISBN 0-330-39201-8 OCLC Number 50877992 Preceded by Dead Right Followed by Cold is the Grave In a Dry Season is the tenth
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THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION · -In the 1780’s long standing resentments against the French monarchy made France angry. · -Louis XVI was an ineffective leader · -Minimum or below pay for work. · -Political conflict · -People hated their Queen (Austria) · -High taxes · -Starvation · -Huge division between rich & poor THE STORMING OF THE BASTILLE · -This major event of the revolution happened because Louis made a serious
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The Beginning: ¥ Attempts to unify Germany actually started during the revolutions that swept through Europe in the spring of 1848 ¥ Germans lent their voices to the cry of national unity and equality. Why?? ¥ Germany in 1848 was not a unified state. ¥ It was a confederation of States made up of 39 individual German countries all under the rule of the hatred Austria ¥ Therefore German people were scattered all over Europe with no sense of identity‚ culture or feelings of national pride.
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