Essays on Revisionism

The Early Modern Scientific Period started with the invention of the Portuguese caravel which paved the way for the rest of the inventions which came along with the concept of trading. The commercial revolution began from the 13th century, and the Middle Ages experienced an expansion of commerce and mercantile progress which was a by-product of the voyages of the Europeans into the Spanish countries of the time (Burlingham). The Industrial Revolution came as another significant change to the economic system whereby handicrafts and products were made at an astonishingly fast rate, which increased the monetary output of the ...

Introduction

Holocaust is the persecution and the extermination of the Jews who lived in Germany, in territories of its allies and the occupied territories during the Second World War; systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the 1933-1945 years. Holocaust was one of the biggest tragedies of all times. Significant part of Jewish population was killed. Also, non-Jewish who tried to help to Jewish or who fight against Nazi regime became victims of Holocaust. In 1933 Adolf Hitler became a Chancellor of Germany. He played the major role in establishing Nazi regime. Several ...

Legacies of the French Revolution

The French Revolution was seen as a bourgeoise revolution in the two decades after it ocurred due the fact that it was now the middle classes who held sway in post Revolution France. Naturally this was not an ideal situation but in his book, Hobsbawn argues that the leftist tendencies of the original revolutionaries vanished by the 1820’s as the middle classes attempted to hold sway in all that was ocurring in France (Hobsawn 1991). One also has to observe the social context in the 1820’s in France as this was now beginning to come to terms ...