… and by any means "no amount of industrial or economic progress could justify the price of human misery." After reviewing the literary sources, laws, testimony and reflections by persons in the I.B. Case Study: The Industrial Revolution the contention…

… the world against him.” The smear campaign tactic summarized in this quotation has been used throughout history, but rarely has it been applied so thoroughly and lastingly as it has been to destroy the life and reputation of Richard III, King…

… the society and political system of France, lasting from 1789 to 1799. During the course of the Revolution, France was changed from an absolute monarchy, to a republic of supposedly equal and free citizens. The effects of the French Revolution were…

… Elton Modern historians explain the collapse of the western Roman empire in the fourth and fifth centuries in one of two ways. One group follows an institutional approach, which finds the reasons in the long-term and looks closely at internal…

… April 2001 The Atomic Bomb No one knows exactly how many people were killed in the initial blast, because thousands disappeared without a trace. The official estimates vary between seventy thousand and eighty thousand. Many more were injured. Thousands…

… new concept, for the past four hundred years the Catholics have continued to battle the Protestants for the land, which was taken from them so long ago. Despite the war's longevity, the twentieth century has, for the most part, seen the worst of the…

… plan initiated by Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), with the intent of radically increasing agricultural and industrial production in the People's Republic of China, and of bringing China to the brink of a utopian communist society. The…

… ancient world for almost 500 years. At their zenith, they controlled a majority of land in the European region. It was an area that extended from the Atlantic coastline of Spain in the west, to the shores of the Caspian Sean in the east; from the…

… string of alliances and treaties during the later half of the 19th century, Britain remained uninvolved. Their policy of “Splendid Isolation” was to keep themselves out of the quarrels and disputes of continental Europe, and allow them to focus on…

… in June 1953 The troubles in East Germany in June 1953 reached a peak on June 17th, when there were mass demonstrations and a General Strike throughout the German Democratic Republic. (G.D.R.). There has been many reasons cited for these protests,…