Month: November 2017

The year 1848 saw Europe convulsed by a wave of revolutions which shook the political and social order to its foundations. The Revolutions of 1848 hold a very significant place…

The most important event in Russian history between the reforms of Peter the Great and the Revolution of 1905 was the abolition of serfdom. Serfdom was codified in the 17th…

Popular culture has received more and more attention in recent times –and has become a part of the broad definition of “culture”. The approach to study of the culture industry…

Mao Zedong was a Chinese revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, poet, political theorist and the founding father of the Republic of China. He was born in 1893 in a well to…

Examine the various interests in the Chinese Trade. What according to you lead to the First Sino-British War?The First Sino-Anglo War of 1839-42 is an important landmark event in the…

Traditionally, China had been a closed society with a self-sufficient economy. Till the 19th century, it pursued limited relations with the western powers, who she believed to belong to a…

Throughout the last decades of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion. In this period of…

Explain in detail the term ‘Meiji Restoration’ with reference to the political and economic changes that it entailed. Is it appropriate to term it a ‘Revolution’? What were the consequences…

Russia had witnessed a revolution in 1917, which for the first time witnessed the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This revolution was accomplished in two stages: the first…

The proclamation of the Republic in Berlin in November 1918 appeared to most as marking the beginning of a new day for the German people and their nation. However, this…

The inter-war period in Europe witnessed a number of drastic changes on the continent as a whole and specifically in some countries. One such change that occurred in Italy was…

The outbreak of the First World War is one of the most controversial and debated subjects in history. The immediate origins of the war can be seen in terms of…

The 18th century in the world of art in France marks a transitional phase between the baroque-rococo style that characterized the 17th century and the neo-classicism that marks the beginning…

Women, just like the Sans-culottes or the peasantry or the bourgeoisie played a significant role in bringing about the French Revolution. Their participation in a number of uprisings prior to…

An important debate that has dominated the thinking of the French Revolution is the question of whether it was a Bourgeoisie Revolution or not. The classical interpretation of the revolution…

A little dog – the turnspit dog – ran inside the wheel high on the wall which turned the spit in front of the fire. The turn-spit was mentioned in…

“The citron melon is cut like a watermelon, from end to end, which makes it easier to take out the seeds. Nicholson of Philadelphia said to remove the soft center…

The lovely long curved oak trough and millstone, apple press, and ‘monstrous tuns’ were used to turn the “golden apples” into “apple-wine” or cider. Cows pulled the wagons during the…

In the mid1800s, Halloween was celebrated “roughly” – parts of a wagon were put in different trees, gates taken off hinges, wooden steps removed, taking wagons apart and rebuilt in…

English educator, theologian, political philosopher, scientist, Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is perhaps best known today for the ‘discovery’ of oxygen. A supporter of the French Revolution, he fled England for America…