Book Review: The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Sheila Fitzpatrick is a highly esteemed scholar who has been publishing and editing works on Russian history since the 1970s (“Sheila Fitzpatrick Biography”). Her signature work on the Bolshevik ...
Columbus’s Letter to Luis de Santangel
In 1493, a letter from Christopher Columbus was addressed and presumably sent to Luis de Santangel, in Barcelona, Spain. The surviving document provides a detailed – and frequently glowing – accou...
Comparing the French and Russian Revolutions of 1917
The French and Russian revolutions had some very similar characteristics that created drastic unrest from the people. The two countries both faced an extremely harsh economy that was leaving citizens ...
European History – Quick Overview
In the case of non-European kings creating mechanisms designed to increase their power it is the Ottoman Empire and the Chinese before communism. The Ottoman centralized government and the Chinese mon...
Fighting for Italian Nationalism
In the middle of the 19th century, the Italian peninsula was under the control of Austrian empire. There were previous attempts to unify the peninsula, however, the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia at tha...
Frederick William III of Prussia
Each person is a prisoner of their own social background, willingly or unwillingly. People are not all good or all evil – they are a mixture of various traits, moods, and behaviors. Still, the effec...
Functions of Siena’s Contrades
Siena, Italy has long been of relevance to researchers from diverse fields such as anthropology to sociology because of the city’s unique and historical “contrade” structure. Whereas the contrad...
For Germans living in Hamburg, 1933 marked a profound shift in political, economic, and social conditions when the chaos and uncertainty of the Weimar Republic were replaced by the Third Reich. To beg...
German Overexpansion Discussion
In essence, the period of relative prosperity and population growth in Germany during the 1870s brought on what has been called overexpansion. Germany had won a war, had been unified, and there was ho...
It is ordinary for people to think of the Middle Ages as the “Dark” Ages, and generally as a period of hundreds of years in which Western civilization stagnated. Media representations of the era ...