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History Review; 03/01/2008
The article discusses the 1950 and 1951 elections in Great Britain, with focus on the fall from power of the Labour Party. After the 1945 general election, Labour had a huge parliamentary majority of 146 seats. And yet in 1950 Labour scraped home with a majority of five seats, and the following year the Conservatives won by 17. The upshot was that Labour was out of office until 1964.
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History Review; 03/01/2008
The article offers a guide to writing the themes paper in history. The themes paper is about breadth and not depth. Hence, rather than being concerned with the minute details of events that an in-depth study requires, students need to take a broad perspective and look for developments and change over time. Key themes will often include the nature of government, opposition, religion, the economy, and war.
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History Review; 03/01/2008
The article explains the process by which Adolf Hitler's will became the law in Nazi Germany. Hitler's contempt for traditional German law had been manifest from his earliest days as leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). Any deference by Hitler to democratic constitutional practice or to the law and judicial procedures of Germany was as a means to an end. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, he orchestrated the passage of a bill that suspended the Constitution and granted the Reich Cabinet unlimited legislative' powers.
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History Review; 03/01/2008
The article discusses how Cardinal Thomas Wolsey of England served the Catholic Church. A tradesman's son from Ipswich, Wolsey entered the Church not out of any sense of deep religious vocation but because it offered the only real route for social advancement in the intensely hierarchical society of late 15th-century England. It was no wonder then that the Church, under Wolsey's direction, was ill-prepared to face the challenge of Lutheran heresy. His failure to reform the Church helped to ensure its collapse in the face of the Protestant Reformation.
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History Review; 03/01/2008
The article proposes Cultural History as new method of studying the past. A good way to study the pass is to re-construct what people and different groups thought at the time and why; what was their relationship with others, the problems and things that surrounded them and in what was their perception of reality, of their present. Here is where History takes as much as it can from Sociology and becomes New Cultural History. Notice that this new approach does not limit itself to describing the ideas and conditions of the past as Social History does.
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History Review; 03/01/2008
The article profiles Puritan pamphleteer William Prynne. The son of a Somerset yeoman, Prynne was a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn who had developed a reputation as a fiery exponent of Puritanism through a series of provocative and inflammatory pamphlets. Because of this he was eventually condemned to have his ears cropped--this mutilation to occur on two separate occasions and at two different places. With the collapse of the Personal Rule in 1640, he became a defender of Presbyterianism, of a single state church funded by the tithe tax, and the Common Law.
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History Review; 03/01/2008
The article explains the political evolution of Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, of Great Britain. Historians have inevitably focused on Palmerston's career after 1830, during which time he was successively Whig Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, and Prime Minister. However, Palmerston had already enjoyed a long political career before 1830 as a member of the Tory party. For somebody with his best political years ahead of him, Palmerston's decision to switch parties in 1930 could not have been more timely.
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History Review; 03/01/2008
The article reviews the book "Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier," by Charles Spencer.
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History Review; 03/01/2008
The article reviews the book "Nasser at War: Arab Images of the Enemy," by Laura M. James.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The article presents information on the wilderness years in the life of British politician Winston Churchill, the period from June 1929 to September 1939 when he was out of office. During this period he was to know acute disappointment and depression, as well as immense satisfaction and elation. The 1929-39 period was a particularly difficult one for Churchill, even if politics be left out of account. He was tested by a longer period of failure than he had ever endured, and yet emerged triumphant in the end.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The article explores the self-destructive qualities of French military and political leader Napoleon I's character which led to his ultimate defeat. Looking at the years after Napoleon gained power, it becomes obvious that his dictatorship allows no room for anything but his own personal foreign strategy. His own actions were the primary cause of war after 1803. Therefore, as the foreign policy was established and moulded by Napoleon, he should certainly take the responsibility for the flaws which caused its downfall.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The article discusses the contest between Protestant King Edward VI and his Catholic sister Mary Tudor as part of a wider struggles between Christians across most of Europe. At issue was true Christian belief, at a time when difference of worship was often seen as heresy, deserving death. This particular struggle began after the death in January 1547 of Henry VIII.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The article focuses on the origins of the second Boer War in an effort to know why it had been fought and who was guilty of starting it. The man most widely held responsible for the Boer War is Joseph Chamberlain, the ambitious, imperialist Colonial Secretary from 1895. There is no significant evidence of the mine-owning companies influencing the British government. Marxist and other anti-capitalist historians have alleged this, but there is little to show it.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The article discusses the purpose, problems and proposals for note-taking for students. Making notes on a book helps readers to focus on the content and to remember it. When note-taking, write legibly and do not try to write everything out. When using abbreviations, make sure to do a key, to avoid difficulty when rereading notes.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The article evaluates the role of General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. He was employed as an advisor to the centre-right government of Alejandro Lerroux and organised the deployment of the Moorish troops to crush the Asturian rising. The killing of rightwing leader Calvo Sotelo served as the pretext for the rebellion. This murder suggested to Franco and many other Spaniards, that the Republic had finally collapsed into anarchy.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The article examines the extent and significance of slave resistance in the U.S. that would eventually lead to Civil War and the destruction of slavery. The majority of slaves signalled their discontent not by taking part in doomed acts of rebellion but through subtler tactics. This covered a spectrum of activities such as theft, the deliberate breaking of tools or harming of livestock, feigning incompetence or illness and working slowly and inefficiently.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The essay asks to what extent the fascism of Italian prime minister and dictator Benito Mussolini represented a triumph of style over substance. The success of the Fascist movement can be attributed to its fundamental ability to evolve in response to Italian popular opinion. Italian Fascism represented a series of facades, masking the political, economic, social, and military inadequacies that marked the dictatorship from its inception in 1919 and ultimately secured its end.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The article considers explanations for France's disastrous foreign policy between the wars in 1918 and 1940 in an effort to know how did France go from triumphant victor to humiliated victim in so short a time. In the early summer of 1940 French armies were defeated in just six weeks and surrender was followed by four years of German occupation. And yet just 22 years earlier France had been victorious over Germany and had helped to fashion a peace treaty designed to prevent any resurgence of German power.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The article reviews the book "The Mid-Tudors, Edward and Mary, 1547-1558," by Stephen J. Lee.
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History Review; 12/01/2007
The article reviews two about the war in Hamburg, Germany, including "Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943," by Keith Lowe and "Bomber Boys," by Patrick Bishop.
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