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Luke Losoya October 19, 2017 HIST 1301-079 Professor Jonathan A Lee Causes of the Revolution from Two Contradictive Historians The American Revolution was a unique phenomenon. Many people from complete opposite ends of colonial societies united to gain independence from the sovereign Great Britain, who during the time was the military and economic powerhouse of the world. Historians often find themselves disagreeing over the causes that joined colonial forces together. Gary Nash and Bernard…

This act places taxes on imported glass, tea, lead, paper, and paint. The money being raised from this act would help pay for the war debt. British Officials used writs of assistance to basically enforce this act. Colonist hated this act because they felt as if it violated their constitutional rights. Therefore, colonist decided to boycott on British goods AGAIN! They hoped this actually got Parliament's attention. This led to Samuel Adams writing a letter saying that the acts were actually…

between the British Parliament and the American colonists. In the book, The Common Cause, David Ammerman, deeply explains how and why the American colonists reacted the way they did when these acts were passed by the British Parliament. The intention of these acts such as the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Justice Act, Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act, was to punish the colonists for their involvement in the Boston Tea Party of 1773. The colonists waited for the British…

preconceptions of Roman glory and imperium. Mattingly believes, contrary to many scholars, that meaningful contrasts and comparisons can be drawn between the Roman Empire and modern empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most notably the British Empire. While Mattingly acknowledges that the concept of imperialism was not as well developed in the ancient world as in the modern era, imperialism is not a solely modern phenomenon and can be applied to Rome because of its uses and…

Samuel Seabury believed the colonies were intentionally causing problems with Great Britain just so they could rebel. He included in his argument against Independence, “When nothing seems to be consulted, but how to perplex, irritate, and affront, the British Ministry, Parliament, Nation and King?” Through this statement, he stated that the colonists were not trying to solve problems, but instead trying to annoy the King. Thomas Paine went on to say “But there is another and greater distinction…

In his book Vermeer’s Hat: the seventeenth century and dawn of the global world, historian Timothy Brook explores the roots of world trade in the seventeenth century by analyzing six paintings by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The book has its primary focus on ties between Europe and the rest of the world and the growing Chinese impact on the world during the age of innovation and improvisation. Brook argues that globalization, which is believed to have begun in the twentieth and…

On July 4, 1776, colonists risked their lives and the lives of their future generations to fight the most powerful nation at the time, Great Britain. The period around 1960’s America was known as the Civil Rights Movement where African Americans risked their lives and self-respect facing ideologies that had no moral or ethical grounds. What these two events have in common is that people gathered together to fight for the right to participate in their system of governance: to participate in a…

Venkatrarma’s painting of the Kurukshetra War serves as an artistic response to war, primarily because it portrays the battle between a group of cousins (Kauravs and Pandavs) for the throne of an Indian Kingdom known as Kuru. The account of the battle is from the epic Indian story, Mahabharata. The painting by the artist depicts the time when chakravyuh was formed as a defensive formation which appears like a blooming lotus by the commander in chief of Kauravs in the battle of Kurukshetra. As…

the psychological barrier that existed between the British and the Indians during the days of British Raj. To Jan Mohamed, A Passage to India attempts “to overcome the barriers of racial difference” (Childs 1999:348). Nirad Chaudhuri, on the other hand, criticised it “for its reduction of political history to a liberal’s preoccupation with personal relationships” (Childs, p.347). To Nihal Singh, however, the novel depicts “how the British in India despise and ostracise Indians, while on…

Victorian era was also a time of great signification for the political system. When Victorian reign took place, the first prime minster is she appointed was Whig politician Viscount Melbourne although the Whigs had a great influence in the British politics during 1860s, they were still sidelined by the liberal party. Edward Smith Stanley of the Whig was the last prime minster who resigned in 1868 and after that politics of England was dominated by the liberals and conservative party. At a time…