Benjamin Eskola

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Some of my university essays, shared here in case they’re of interest to anybody else.

All are under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial licence.

History

To what extent can the outbreak of civil war in 1642 be blamed on Charles I?
4 July, 2013 • English Civil War • history, britain, seventeenth century • pdf
Did the Franco dictatorship emerge more from long-term internal Spanish conflicts, or as part of a ‘European Civil War’?
2 April, 2014 • Dictatorships • history, spain, fascism • pdf
How ‘new’ was the ‘new imperialism’ of the period c. 1870–1914?
9 December, 2014 • British Empire • history, britain, imperialism, nineteenth century • pdf
Has the role of religion in the French civil wars of the sixteenth century been exaggerated?
11 December, 2014 • Europe • history, france, sixteenth century • pdf
Why was the Swedish empire so short-lived?
16 March, 2015 • Europe • history, sweden, seventeenth century • pdf
To what extent can the United States in the twentieth century be described as an empire?
8 December, 2015 • Global Cold War • history, united states, imperialism, cold war • pdf
What were the consequences of the Sino-Soviet split for the Cold War?
15 March, 2016 • Global Cold War • history, russia, china, cold war • pdf
To what extent and in what ways is Imperialism gendered?
15 March, 2016 • Gender • history, imperialism, feminism • pdf
“The 1917 Revolution was the inevitable outcome of the First World War”. Discuss.
8 December, 2016 • Revolutionary Russia • history, russia • pdf
Do you agree that the Soviet cultural policies of the 1930s were a retreat from socialism?
21 March, 2017 • Revolutionary Russia • history, russia • pdf
Why, and through what means did revelations of atrocities in the Congo produce a ‘crisis of empire’ in the early twentieth century?
21 March, 2017 • Colonial Gaze • history, nineteenth century, britain, africa, imperialism • pdf
Free Trade and Imperialism: the cotton industry and British foreign policy, 1858–98
27 April, 2017 • Dissertation • history, nineteenth century, britain, united states, imperialism, slavery • pdf

Law

Assess the proposition that the majority judgments in Liversidge v Anderson were wholly subversive of the principles both of the rule of law and the sovereignty of Parliament as Dicey would have understood them
11 December, 2017 • Public and constitutional law • law, human rights • pdf
‘The much heralded deployment of human rights in English law has had significant effects in many areas. In land law, however, the effects have been muted and, in truth, hardly noticeable.’ Discuss.
14 May, 2018 • Research essay • law, human rights, eu, housing • pdf

English Literature

Reflections and critiques of Victorian domestic values in Doyle’s The Sign of Four and Stevenson’s The Beach of Falesá
25 February, 2021 • Reading and studying literature • literature, nineteenth century, britain, arthur conan doyle, robert louis stevenson • pdf

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