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America supported South Vietnam’s economy, military, and gave advice to the Diem government during the Vietnam war for an array of political reasons. Many of America’s reasons for escalating the conflict reflected American politicians’ interests in involvement but did not emphasise enough whether entering the conflict was best for the Vietnamese. This would have made the conflict a noble or higher cause for Vietnam because it would have given an opportunity for the Vietnamese to progress...

GERMAN YOUTH MOVEMENT PRESENTATION INCLUDING CONTEXT, ANALYSIS OF SOURCES AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

What role did transportation play for the Chinese economy and material life? 1577- 1880. This essay will examine the importance of transportation for the Chinese economy and material life by closely analysing the Oversized Hanging Scrolls, Petition 11 and the Chinese Wallpaper and Porcelain Plate from the East India Company sources. It is argued that the movement of commodities abroad, the maintenance of China’s urban life and the transatlantic movement of indentured people explain the cruc...

This essay will assess the extent to which global history must be comparative by examining a working definition of ‘global history’, by assessing globalisation’s impact upon the perceived nature of time and space, and global history’s relationship with national histories. Most historians concur that global history is a new ‘perspective’ with which to examine the past, and this method gained popularity from the 1980’s. It seems that comparison is a fundamental tool of examination f...

PRISON JUSTICE SYSTEM NOTES - Are prisons an effective way of ‘doing’ justice and punishment? Court magistrates’ documents could provide insight into court officials’ aims in sending criminals to prisons. This could include reform or marginalising criminals from the public. Prisoners’ records from prison riots give prisoners voice, providing us with insight into prison conditions and activities. During the 1970’s and 1980’s, public critique against prisons based upon humanitarian g...

Essay. The digital revolution has drastically transformed what History can and will be in the future. It redefined the authors, audiences, and records essential to the discipline. The digital revolution broadened the number of people who could write academic History. With the rise of the internet, online resources transformed the academic landscape. Online bibliographies listed literature and online collections provided access to books, articles and primary documents immediately. Before the di...

Assess the influence of transport upon China’s economic and material life - SHORT ESSAY STUCTURE

DOES GLOBAL HISTORY HAVE TO BE COMPARATIVE - ESSAY SUMMARY INCLUDING HISTORIOGRAPHY

Are prisons an effective way of doing justice? From the 1960s until the 1980s, episodes of significant debate occurred discussing prisons’ efficacy in managing crime, let alone in ending it. On this occasion, the debate ended with a larger, arguably more violent, less effective prison system. Why was there a strengthening of prisons? Was it that no-one proposed serious alternatives, the timing of the debate or another reason? A whole series of debates included improving youth offenders’ pris...

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS IN HISTORY NOTES INCLUDING SLAVERY, IMPACT ON ORDINARY LIVES, BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC HISTORY AND INDUASTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE FLU