Academic papers on European History

European Commercial Expansion
This 5 page thesis paper examines European commercial expansion through several centuries and concludes that the ramifications of such are broad. Some examples provided relate to France and the United States. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Security Affairs in Eastern Europe and Moscow after 1945
This 5 page report discusses the highly effective and equally repressive security measures and forces of both the Soviet Union and the nations of eastern Europe after World War II and until the end of the Cold War. Such systems far outweighed...
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Queen Elizabeth I
A 12 page paper. Born of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, Elizabeth's childhood was not what one would anticipate for a future Queen of England. This paper provides a biographical sketch of this great queen beginning with her birth in 1533 and ending...
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The Silk Road
A 7 page research paper that describes, first of all, what the 'Silk Road' was
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Internalization of the Spanish Civil War
A 5 page paper discussing factional reactions to the Spanish Civil War. Of course we know now that any revolution for democracy is born of an intense and pervasive desire for it. In the time of the Spanish Civil War, the bloody struggle was...
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Spanish History: 1898 to 1948
Spain was forced to grant independence to most of its colonies during the 1800s. The remaining colonies (Cuba and the Philippines) were lost to the United States in 1898 at the end of the Spanish-American War. This 5 page paper explores fifty...
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Rise of the West, Etc.
A 5 page research paper that relies on the text The Earth and Its Peoples by Bulliet, et al (1997) to discuss three areas of history. The first section of the paper concerns the "rise of the West," the next section relates European expansionism to...
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Russia Through The Year 1917
11 pages in length. As a collective people, early Russians experienced great cultural, social and political hardship, having long been under Mongol oppression. Interestingly, however, this period of complete domination did not serve as a lesson...
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Causes of World War II
A 5 page paper which examines the causes of World War II. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Importance of Germany in European History
A 6 page paper which discusses the history of Germany as it involves general European development, illustrating how Germany often played an important role in Europe's history. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Violence -- the Seed of Capitalist Democracy in England and France
This 7 page report discusses capitalist democracy and the fact that it is more often seen by the so-called
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Influence of Treaty of Versailles on the Rise of Hitler
A 4 page research paper that examines how the reparations clause from the Treaty of Versailles facilitated the rise of Hitler. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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British Imperialism, Literature And Propaganda
The literature of Imperialist England included themes based on social Darwinism, the crisis of faith, imperialism, poverty and progress. This 7 page paper explores the issues in Milton's Paradise Lost; Behn's Oroonoko and Swift's Gulliver's...
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Peasant Fires: The Drummer Of Niklashausen By Richard Wunderli
A 5 page paper. With this book, Wunderli has given the non-historian reader a glimpse and an understanding of life in 15th and 16th century Germany. The author recounts the story of Hans Behem, a peasant shepherd who claimed to have seen a vision...
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Italy Under Mussolini
A 5 page research paper that looks to William Bolitho's 1926 text on Mussolini for an explanation of how Fascism took over Italy, and then to a summation of Italian progress under Mussolini's rule. No additional sources cited.
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