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The title, "great" is reserved for a select few characters and documents in history. Alfred earned his through establishing stable change, peace and improvement. So too the Magna Cart...

Evaluate the significance of Germany in the origins of the Cold War. `What is wrong with Germany is that there is too much of it'. This is an ample conclusion by A.J. P. Taylor, a...

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century urban dwellers are certainly not renowned for their contribution to waste-disposal technology. Today, this period in particular conjures up a notion...

Acamapichtli Name meaning: 'Handful of Reeds' Born: at Tizaapan to Opochtli Iztahuatzin and Atotoztli Married: at least four times. [1]Ilancueitl [2]Tezcatlan Miyahuatzin [3]...

Curtin`s `The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census`, is succeeded by a curious and controversial legacy. Though it is perhaps self-evident that controversy abounds wherever a subject matter...

Davis, Natalie Zemon. "The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France." Past & Present 59 (May 1973): 51-91. Introduction Published works by Wolff, Estebe, Ru...

Article: G.P. Sreenivasan,'The social origins of the Peasants 'War of 1525 in Upper Swabia', Past & Present, (2001): 30 - 65 This article focusses on a particular element of the Pe...

Hammersley, Rachel, 'Jean-Paul Marat's The Chains of Slavery in Britain and France, 1774-1833', Historical Journal, 48 (2005), pp. 641-60. Political power in Europe, especially in ...

James Hankins, 'Exclusivist Republicanism and the Non-Monarchical Republic,' Political Theory, 38 (2010), pp. 452-82. This article sets out Hankins argument which stems from defini...

HOW FAR DO THE SOURCES AGREE THAT THE CONSERVATIVES EFFECTIVELY MANAGED THE STANDARD OF LIVING BETWEEN 1955 AND 1964? The sources generally suggest that the Conservatives were inef...