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Hace 2 días · The late 19th century Porfiriato (1876-1911) was characterized by economic growth but also marked by authoritarianism and social inequality. Long-standing grievances, including land dispossession, exploitation of labor, and lack of representation led to the Mexican Revolution in 1910.
Hace 4 días · Even more than 20 years after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the end of the Cold War, the association of Marx with the Soviet experience remains strong. Some undergraduates, encountering the subject for the first time, are even surprised to hear that Marx did not actually live in the 20th century.
Hace 1 día · Nowadays, it’s also called “frontierism” and “frontier theory.”. There’s no single explanation of history, of course. Turner himself disavowed monocausal thinking, while critics have ...
Hace 6 días · Before the 19th century, no distinction was made between potassium and sodium. Sodium was first isolated by Davy in the same year by passing an electric current through molten sodium hydroxide (NaOH). When Davy heard that Berzelius and Pontin prepared calcium amalgam by electrolyzing lime in mercury, he tried it himself.
Hace 1 día · Olympic Games, athletic festival that originated in ancient Greece and was revived in the late 19th century. Before the 1970s the Games were officially limited to competitors with amateur status, but in the 1980s many events were opened to professional athletes.
Hace 2 días · Philipp Otto Runge, The Morning, 1808. Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.
Hace 5 días · Parenting in England 1760-1830: Emotion, Identity, and Generation. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780199565191; 296pp.; Price: £65.00. This is an outstanding book, which will open up a new area of research for historians of the family. We have so many good histories of children and childhood, but Joanne Bailey’s book is the ...
