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 | | Social Reform, 1906-1911 | | by lynnxtoh, Jan 31, 2008 | | Why the Liberals of Britain embarked upon an extensive program of social reform in the years 1906-1911. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | A Protracted War | | by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 31, 2008 | | Military and political reasons for the National Liberation Front’s success in its struggle against the United States Military in South Vietnam, 1961-1973. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Isolated Thunderclaps: Operation Rolling Thunder | | by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 31, 2008 | | America’s first sustained bombing campaign of North Vietnam, was riddled with problems. Against the loss of a thousand aircraft and many of their crews, the expenditure of two billion dollars, and the deaths of tens of thousands of North Vietnamese non-combatants, the operation failed to achieve its stated objectives. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Life and Death at the Gallows of Eighteenth-century England: | | by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 31, 2008 | | In The Tyburn Riot Against the Surgeons, Peter Linebaugh puts forward an alternative viewpoint on the issue of public hangings in eighteenth-century England: specifically, that death by hanging was not, as other historians have put forward, viewed with callousness and fear by the working class. Rather, he portrays the “Mob” as engaged in a struggle for the peace of the living and the preserved decency of, and respect for, the dead. In doing this, he not only takes issue with what he sees as a traditional and generalised line of historical knowledge, but also highlights what can be interpreted as timeless and universal human values. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Contradiction and Inconsistency in the Conquest of the Aztecs | | by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 31, 2008 | | Both Diaz and Leon-Portilla portray an Aztec understanding of the Spanish conquest that is full of contradiction; similarly, the Spanish view of the Aztecs is shown to be equally inconsistent. These paradoxical conflicts inherent in each group’s understanding of the other are critically important to this study of conflict between civilizations: they led to complacency and division within the Aztec ranks, and, in contrast, to unity and aggression in the case of the Spanish. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | The Critical Period: Reasons Behind Germany’s Loss of the Battle of Britain, 1940 | | by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 31, 2008 | | In a rare divergence from what history might expect, a handful of English fighter pilots, pitted against the full might of the German Luftwaffe, survived and indeed prevailed. They were able to accomplish this in spite of everything history had to throw at them not only due to their bravery and skill, but also thanks to the culmination of several crucial factors. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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