Industrialisation

The Five-Year Plan (FYPs) were introduced by Joseph Stalin for Soviet industrialisation.The series of FYPs were meant to modernise Soviet industry and to match and overtake the other Western powers who by an industrial revolution had managed to modernise their industries and increase their industrial output. The FYPs were implemented to fulfil various purposes.Most of the USSR was very backward in the industrial sector.The USSR had the resources but did not have the infrastructure and…

Leeuwen and Ineke Maas (2002) used qualitative and quantitative data from nineteenth century northern Sweden to determine if there was a move from homogamy to heterogamy. They found little support for decreasing homogamy, but found that the industrialisation of northern Sweden throughout the nineteenth century led to separation from community-led courtship and marriage. This may have been due to increasing immigration, and the move from “rural society into one of urban and industrial wage…

The transatlantic slave trade is the largest slave trade, which occurred in Africa during the early 15th century, 17 million people were deported from their homes and sold as slaves to work in plantations. It holds great importance because it developed the concept of Capitalism despite the everlasting consequences such as racist ideology. The Transatlantic Slave Trade is generally associated with Capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system where things are owned by a person or group as opposed…

Nature has enslaved people since the beginning of time. As humans have developed they have overcome oceans, plagues, nomadism, and other organisms. Most recently scientists have created means to overcome the biological constraints of agriculture, and the plant that has contributed the most is corn. Pollan stated. “corn has done more than any other species to help the food industry realize the dream of freeing food from nature’s limitations.(91)” thesis Modern corn now is genetically changed to…

attributed to the countries erratic political transformations; principally the economic consequences of the nation’s Imperial collapse produced by European globalization that lead to Mao Zedong’s Communist revolution as well as the economic industrialisation that opened China to the world under the rule of Deng Xiaoping. Under dynastic authorities in the 18th and 19th century’s…

country’s economy, especially for developing economies (2008: 224). This is the case as in developing economies, investment decisions without state guidance would typically only serve to “perpetuate existing structures” and not lead to any major industrialisation (Beresford 2008: 225). I believe this conclusion to be sound on basis that often long-term investments, particularly in developing economies, typically require state investment as I would expect private and/or foreign investors would be…

social theory existing in modern day history is that of Marxism. Marxism refers to the political and social theory developed by Karl Marx in the 19th Century, which explores class relations in history. This theory was influenced heavily by industrialisation, as Marx was living in Britain during a time where the industry was booming and the economy was becoming dependent on it. As the industrial development had a major impact on improving life for most of the lower class, Marxists developed as a…

We can clearly see this through the greenhouse emissions given off by humans since the start of industrialisation as well as in the past (Ruddiman, 2003) with new innovative land use and agricultural discoveries. There seems to be no compelling evidence to suggest that climate variations occur alone and have no human input and in the past 11,000 years, climate…

description reinforces Williams’ fundamental argument that “culture is ordinary”, as Williams states that his experiences growing up in an ordinary agricultural area allowed him to see the “shape of a culture, and its modes of change” as advances from industrialisation lead to growth and change within their culture (Williams, 1989, p92).…

audience. Evident in Aldous Huxley’s 1931 dystopian fiction novel ‘Brave New World’, Huxley represents both his personal and political perspectives through a fictional realisation of a futuristic dystopia. His vigorous stance against the rapid industrialisation of the world, and the possible misuse of technology to influence the freedom of the people are reflected overtly throughout the novel. This yearning for peace and free thought is shared by Josh Raskin’s 2007 short film ‘I met the Walrus’…