Category: 19th Century

David Harveys Views on the Reasons for Replanning of Paris in the 19th Century The concept of the progression of society is timeless and it often is crucial for innovation and growth. Paris, one of the most iconic and well-known cities in the world today, went through a complex and drastic change in the 19th…

Essay on Planning of 19th-Century Paris 2In 1853 Baron Georges Haussmann was appointed by Napoleon III the planning and transformation of Paris. At the time Paris was still recovering from the days of revolution, not just in 1789, but also more recent ones in 1830 and 1848, and was filled with thieves, escaped convicts and…

Mental Illness in the 19th Century Mental illness affects a big portion of the US population. The National Alliance on Mental Illness claimed that roughly one in five American citizens experience mental illness at some point during their lives, which is almost 20 percent of the total population (NAMI, 1). With such data available, it…

19th Century Slavery in American Literature Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton. Slavery in America ended with the Civil War, but…

Why Civil Rights Movement Was More Effective Than The Suffragette Movement? In the late 19th century, British women fought for suffrage. Decades later, cross the Atlantic, black people in the US fought for civil rights. We can see the similarities in both revolutions: vulnerable groups fought for their rights, they resisted again the backward social…

The History And Nowadays Of Soccer When The Soccer Was Created? Humans has created a lot of ball games, since antiquity . It is known that this sport existed both in the culture of the Mediterranean Sea and in America. The oldest and most revealing finding dates back to a relief from Ancient Greece 400…

Development Of Sports During The 19th Century If it was possible to travel a bit more than a century in the past most of the sports that we know and cherish today would not exist. Even the sports that were around, today we would have a hard time recognizing. The development of organized sports in…

The Rise And Fall Of World Trade In The 19th Century Many economists have attributed the increase in world trade as an effect of globalization. Globalization is the integration of international markets (ORourke et al, 2002 p.25), that is, gravitating to a single world market. This first happened in the 19th century as the world…

Changes In Lives Of Women During 19th And 20th Century In glancing back at the times, we have considered we see that normal examples of thought with respect to gender orientation have run however the course of history, so we shouldn’t be amazed that despite everything we are impacted by and experience the impacts of…

The Emergence of the United States as a Great Power on the World Stage There is no doubt that the United States came onto the world stage as a great power during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. How, and why that happened are important discussions to realize just how powerful the U.S. was…