History Resources (page 17)

In reference to the Safavids, the continued usage of the term `state` connoting fixed, internationally recognized borders, a common language and a monopoly at the centre of the use of...

Between 1953 and 1962, a change in superpower relations between the USA and the USSR is largely evident. Both blocs reduced their levels of animosity towards each other, worked (broad...

Irving Sandler penned an obituary of Allan Kaprow in the New Yorker in which he accounts a telling anecdote of Kaprow's artistic philosophy. Allegedly, at the Artists' Club of Abstrac...

The factual accuracy of Tacitus work is indeed questionable. It is based largely on a secondary source of unknown reliability and obvious mistakes are apparent exemplified in his conf...

While Machiavelli does not exhibit a consistent philosophy throughout his writings "certain concepts recur constantly, binding together his theories into some sort of coherence." Two...

Prior to 1815 Germany was not a meaningful concept but rather it was spilt in over 300 states and ruled over by Austria which was then the centre of the Holy Roman Empire. However i...

Introduction "Penny Francis is not a puppeteer, she's nothing to give to puppetry apart from things she can invent." Chris Somerville (24. 10. 2012). Huddled over an electric...

Was Empress Cixi was the most significant factor influencing the events of the Boxer Rebellion. The boxer rebellion otherwise known as the boxer rising (1900-1). The Boxer Movem...

Chapter 1-Terrorism and 'Feminism': The movement before the 1905 Revolution. Linda Edmondson gives a concise overview of the period that will be covered in this study (c.1860-1917). ...

Evaluate the significance of Magna Carta in the thirteenth century. Magna Carta finds its significance within its context- the England of King John. Yet the charter should be regar...