Pages tagged history

2019

Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 5 9th December 2018
Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 4 28th November 2018
Book: Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991, by Orlando Figes (2014) 12th November 2018

Book: Small Wars, Faraway Places, by Michael Burleigh (2013) 16th October 2017
Book: Capitalism & Slavery, by Eric Williams (1994) 13th May 2017
Free Trade and Imperialism: the cotton industry and British foreign policy, 1858–98 27th April 2017 essays
Book: Empire of Cotton, by Sven Beckert (2015) 25th April 2017
Do you agree that the Soviet cultural policies of the 1930s were a retreat from socialism? 21st March 2017 essays
Why, and through what means did revelations of atrocities in the Congo produce a ‘crisis of empire’ in the early twentieth century? 21st March 2017 essays
Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 3 13th February 2017
Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 2 7th February 2017
Book: A History of Modern Russia, by Robert Service (2003) 31st January 2017
Book: The Origin of Capitalism, by Ellen Meiksins Wood (2002) 26th January 2017
Reading A People’s History of the United States, ch. 1 23rd January 2017
Book: Altered Pasts, by Richard J. Evans (2014) 16th January 2017

“The 1917 Revolution was the inevitable outcome of the First World War”. Discuss. 8th December 2016 essays
What were the consequences of the Sino-Soviet split for the Cold War? 15th March 2016 essays
To what extent and in what ways is Imperialism gendered? 15th March 2016 essays

To what extent can the United States in the twentieth century be described as an empire? 8th December 2015 essays
Why was the Swedish empire so short-lived? 16th March 2015 essays

Has the role of religion in the French civil wars of the sixteenth century been exaggerated? 11th December 2014 essays
How ‘new’ was the ‘new imperialism’ of the period c. 1870–1914? 9th December 2014 essays
Did the Franco dictatorship emerge more from long-term internal Spanish conflicts, or as part of a ‘European Civil War’? 2nd April 2014 essays

To what extent can the outbreak of civil war in 1642 be blamed on Charles I? 4th July 2013 essays