Industrialization post Napoleon Wars

Citizen Consumer”. This reflects how she is breaking up the time periods in respect to what consumer classification was most prevalent and beneficial to the time. “Purchaser consumers during the late 1930s and World War II championed pursuit of self-interest in the marketplace out of confidence in the ameliorative effects of aggregate purchasing power” (Cohen, 8). The author points out though that these types of consumers would undermine home-front needs in times of war. “The purchaser consumer, represents the interests of business and the [Laissez-faire] philosophy of deregulated mass consumption leading to trickle down benefits for all”…

It is in the postwar time periods of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I that Europe sees a new way of addressing the underlying causes of war in the attempt to prevent another: collective security. Collective security is when a large group of nations agree to not attack each other as well as preserve the provisions of their treaties and/or agreements. It is during both these postwar time periods that collective security is practiced. However, both time periods have differences in the way…

Following World War II, women of the 1950s spent most of their time in the home. After a large group of men returned home from the war, they began to start families. This period is referred to as The Baby Boom. The Baby Boom was a period in which 76.4 million babies were born between the years 1946 and 1964 (“Baby Boomers”). With so many babies born to these households, women had little choice other than to stay home with their children. The domestic life became extremely common for women of the…

The 1950’s was the decade after World War II and is synonymous to being a golden age for capitalism, family, and overall life. 1950’s America was and is still looked at as the poster child for good living. When comparing this era to present day, the admiration is lower in some areas and higher in others. Between these two times, people believe there are major differences that make them polar opposites. The way military impacts individuals differ. In present day, we are not currently recovering…

In the short story, The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich, we are introduced to two brothers by the name of Lyman and Henry. The story takes place in North Dakota on an Indian Reservation where the two brothers and their family both live. Throughout the story we are introduced to two main symbols such as The red convertible car and the red river which impacts the two brothers journey. The Journey in which the both brothers part take in, brings us through their quest or also known as their…

Decadence has been defined as a decline in cultural values and morality by doing things that are against the acceptable cultural and moral values of the Japanese people. Based on Sakaguchi Ango’s essay it can be scrutinized that after the World War II there a decline in Japanese cultural values that put them together. During the war times, the article indicates that writers were not allowed to portray the image of women who had lost their husband during the war. The aim of forbidding writers to…

The post war atmosphere clouded the writers judgements to be impartial at the time. She writes, “In the 1950’s and early 1960’s, an age of anti-communist anxiety, intellectuals were more prone to critique mass culture, conformity and consumerism, rather than the basic structural flaws in the American liberal state” (Nicolaides, 96). Nicolaides describes how this perspective was applied to more things in the United States than just this negative analysis of suburbs. After this era and into the…

As millions of people completed the annual U.S. census during the post-World War II ‘good life’, there was a common theme amongst suburban white women, “occupation: Housewife”. Following the World War II, the U.S. experienced times of economic prosperity as the middle-class was as strong as it had ever been, home ownership was at an all-time high, and more purchasing power allowed for a mass consumption society. However, there was one major underlying problem, one that was coined in Betty…

people in Russia got no say in the government and the government is only by the tzar for the tzar. Many of the Russian people were looking for different governments and many thought that communism was the best choice of government for Russia. To understand why the rise of communism was helped lead the Russian’s chant of “Peace, Bread, and Land” we have to look at Russia before revolution. From the source written by the Russian Conservative, who were a bunch of members from the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th…

seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1689-1815), Britain and France were engaged in what many historians refer to as the ‘second hundred years’ wars.’ Although actually a series of wars and conflicts, the period was characterized by military engagement and political competition. Beyond the politics and military, though, one could argue that these conflicts also involved clashes of ideologies, religions, societies, and cultures. The defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 proved to be a…