Economic history

The Human Record contains various sources of global history. Chapter 8 of this book covers a few topics from this history. One individual named Treitschke explains his views on monarchy and democracy. There were changes that occurred in Europe that led to an explanation of his views on human progress and war. The other individual mentioned in this chapter was Jules Ferry. He had strong views on the hierarchy of different races as well as the French colonies. Racism, Militarism, and the New…

When studying past events in history, a common theme tends to come up, wars. Wars have been a part of nearly every country’s history and can change the entire position of a nation. From internal conflicts to external threats, nations will get involved in wars in order to help themselves, help other countries for moral reasons, or just feel as if another country is a threat. As a result of war playing out in a country, it can destroy one’s infrastructure, cause innocent civilians to die,…

Religion exists in every sphere of life: social, political, economic, and cultural. One of the most important cultural inheritances of the country is the language - Arabic. It is one of the oldest languages of the region. It includes different elements of the various people groups, who once lived in that territory…

History is always being created, but never changed or altered. Although something may have happened yesterday, today, it is now considered historic. The irony here is that whether it happened a few hours ago, yesterday, last week, or many years ago, it is still considered historic because it is now in the past. As stated by Dr. Drake in many lectures, “history does not necessarily repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” From 1865 to the 2000s, different areas of history have a stronger rhyming scheme…

Some history events are essential evidences that illustrate ideas of how the event begins and ends. Some historians take a time to write books and articles about important events to demonstrate deep details that readers may not know about. Many historians have constructed an event to their own ideological beliefs to infiltrate those beliefs to the readers. Moreover, a Presidential history or a biography topic can be constructed with a lot of interpretations that results in arguments and…

2.1 History of the method Political discourse analysis – which will henceforth be referred to as 'PDA' – strives to establish itself as a balanced mix between linguistic analysis and political comment. It is a recent cross-discipline related to discourse studies, more precisely to critical discourse analysis, and political science. Nonetheless, PDA's roots go back to antiquity on which it built and drew inspiration from, as well as from the many studies developed in the interval. 2.1.1…

I decided to enroll in AP Government and Economics it is the class that has the most utility for me. Starting towards the middle of freshman year in Honors Global History, I thought going into a higher history class was a good idea, so I decided to enroll in AP US History, which was one of the better decisions in my life. That class was a good experience so I wanted to take AP again in junior year. There are multiple benefits that drove me to make this decision; the first is content. In every…

geographic postcolonial theory. The difference between the two camps being, whether the terrorists are fighting to protect their identity groups, or to maintain their homeland. However, there is a third less dominant group that also exists, economic theory. An economic look says that it is living conditions are the most important determining factor and not area or identity. The first argument is that the Irish Troubles were religious in origin. Saying that the origin was religious is not to…

world’s leading economists and economic historians. By utilising her knowledge and education in economic theory and quantitative analysis, Professor Goldin has made a series of outstanding and original contributions to the application of economic theory and quantitative methods to the study of history. Professor Goldin graduated from Cornell University in 1967 with a BA in Economics (Magna Cum Laude) before completing her Masters in 1969 and PhD in 1972 degrees in Economics at the University of…

In Edward Chancellor’s Devil Take the Hindmost (Chapter 8), the Author briefly highlights the era in our history known as the “Reagan Revolution”. Events that Chancellor defines as significant are the weak enforcement of Glass-Steagall, reduced funding for the SEC, and the strike of air traffic controllers. More broadly, Reagan centered his policies around tax cuts, deregulation, and “free-trade” initiatives. Chancellor concludes his overview of the time period by noting that although Reagan…