Industrialisation

Plan: To what extent does Max Weber agree with Karl Marx in his analysis of capitalism? One of Marx’s core concerns is capitalism. In his book Capital: Volume 1 and many other articles, he provides an understanding of the nature of capitalism and describes how a capitalist society is designed to increase the exploitation of the proletariat to provide profit for the bourgeoisie. As well as, analysing how the “rule of the bourgeois democrats… will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction”…

Throughout Postcards, Proulx presents a bleak of vision of life that is violently sad. Trapped in this unforgiving landscape; the characters are bound to their farm. With no chance of escape; the characters are seen as having no free will. Their fate is determined by their inability to adapt to the fast moving capitalism of America in the 40’s. Capitalism “nips all aspirations in the bud” which is clearly seen through the inevitable decline of the farm. As America progresses, the Blood family…

The Santa Fe Trail was an 800 mile Trail from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. The travel along this trail began in 1821 and continued until 1860 where the railroad took over control of the trade; under the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. It traversed what was called the Great American Desert. This was named as such because of the expanse of dry, arid terrain viewed as inhospitable to the nineteenth century contemporaries, and unsuitable for settlement and expansion.…

Expansions due to factors such as immigration, industrialisation and economic stability of the country have been the driving force behind the steady urbanisation of Australia’s major cities. Thus, Australia is one of the most rapidly urbanising countries and is currently ranked as the third most liveable country…

India’s democratic longevity is anomalous to modernisation theory’s claim of a correlative relationship between economic development and democracy. However, this anomaly does not disprove modernisation theory, but rather is symptomatic of its inapplicability in many democratising countries today. To address this tension, this essay will outline the theoretical foundations of modernisation theory and subsequently offer an institutionalist and voluntarist approach in revealing its inapplicability…

west of America. The explorers and opportunists who spread into Africa such as David Livingstone bore a resemblance to the American explorers who had opened up the frontier to American expansion. This expansion in turn massively assisted the industrialisation of both nations: in America the sheer number of resources and huge wealth as a result led to massive economic expansion in the 19th century. For Britain, too, the empire was a major driver of the industrial revolution. It relied upon the…

genocide was not unique to the 20th century. I argued that, rather, the means to fully execute a genocide, the eradication of a certain racial group, only became available in the 20th century. However, as Bartov and Weitz have made clear to me, the industrialisation of warfare is only a factor in the genocides of the 20th century. Both authors attack this issue right away in their texts. Of course, they concede that genocide is as an ancient phenomenon as they cite biblical and colonial…

markets have voted with their currency that foreign production is what they want. You can see this Happening through out history, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and China since the second world war have at some stage been at the industrialisation level of T-shirt production and have technologically advanced, allowing for more income from trade and more development. The problem with this is that people see the unemployed workers in their country and the horrible working…

1- Can any nation-state be considered a ‘civic’ nation? It is critical to commence with a definition of the concept at the heart of the discussion as a way of setting the stage for the present discourse. The concept of civic nationhood is applied in reference to the identity in politics formed from common citizenship that thrives in a liberal state (Smith, 2013). The concept of a civic nation, therefore, goes beyond subjective variables, such as culture, language, customs or traditions of the…

As a concept, Development has been exported to third world countries uncontested. Many theories have been advanced to support the achievement of development goals such as the modernisation, structuralist, and Participatory approaches. Although these school of thoughts originated from different points in history and have polarised ideas on how development can be achieved, they all inherently accept that development is the solution to the challenges affecting third world countries. This question…