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A. J. P. Taylor's often quoted assessment of the revolutions of 1848 as a turning point which 'failed to turn' typifies the notion of failure that the year 1848 evokes. In France, as...

The expectation of the Legislative Assembly, when it declared war on Austria in 1792, was a brief and victorious campaign. The number of wars, revolutions, and insurrections which fol...

The Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act was implemented by the British government in 1974, mainly in response to increasing tensions in Northern Ireland and the rise of...

Many have declared the 21st century as the 'century for the woman' (UN Women, 2011), and indeed, in many respects it has been, so far. With regards to human security, much more attent...

The flexible nature of neo-Gramscian hegemony Neo-Gramscian hegemony, in stark contrast to HST yet with some remarkable similarities, asserts that a hegemon assembles a hegemonic ...

A Mathematician's Apology. That is the title of a book by G H Hardy (Professor of Geometry in Oxford 1919, onwards and Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge 1931, onwards). In the ...

When I am all alone in bed I think of you and her and then I am dead. You are happy in new lover`s arms, thinking only of you and her intertwined, thigh to thigh, palm to palm...

Today we live in a world of numerous identities. Each identity defines a person and ascertains his singularity among the masses. It, in turn, unites a conglomeration of people on th...

The term ideology can be defined as 'a set of political ideas derived from a theory'. Critics such as philosopher Hegel have argued that ideologies determine social existence and that...

Ok, so we all have been there: a function, a charity event or just a concert organised by somebody who has little understanding of the classical music-making. They come up to you and ...