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Prussian Liberalism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Conservatism in Prussia was r etained and liberalism defeated. What caused this defeat? What were the weaknesses of liberalism which doomed it in Bismarck's empire? To me the most important factor was that the dichotomy ...
History and the Pendulum: An Application of the Schlesinger Theory of American Politics to Twentieth-Century Mexico
Beginning with the Greeks Parmenides, Errpodocles and Polybius, continuing through unknown Mayan theologians, to the works of Vico and Hegel, cyclical theories are found throughout the historiographical canon. The tradition ...
Constitutional Paralysis, the French Left, and the Fifth Republic
The problem to be addressed in this paper is the constitutional paralysis present in the French Fifth Republic. Constitutional paralysis is defined here as the lack of consensus among nearly all major groups concerning ...
An Essay on Absolutism in the Renaissance
Thus we have observed the diverse paths which the renaissance rulers chose to carve their national monarchies. All of them were aided by a powerful but subordinated oligarchy, be it the Royal Council in England, le Conseil ...
"And we shall overcome": Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Battle for Civil Rights
Historians will continue to debate Lyndon Johnson's place in history. Many will view the disaster of Vietnam as the most compelling legacy of his presidency and forever judge him by his tragic mistakes. But not all will ...
Connecticut's Kingmaker: Enlightened Machine Politics in the Era of John Bailey, Democratic Boss
Demonstrating that modem political machines could function effectively and efficiently without harming America's constitutional system, Boss John Bailey returned Madison's trust by creating a responsible, republican, and ...
Algerian Immigrants in France: A Case Study of Domestic Immigration Policy and Its International Implications
My paper examines the history of immigration in France, the positive and negative aspects of the public policy ofintegration in France, and the alternative means ofincorporating immigrants into
mainstream French society. ...
Is Germany All It's Cracked Up To Be? A Study Of Civil Society In Germany
In this thesis, I examine the strength of civil society in Germany. Generally, "civil society" is informal community association, distinct from state and market interaction, through which citizens develop a sense of moral ...
The Political Career of Henry St. George Tucker, 1889-1932
The purpose of this paper is to examine the political career of Harry St. George Tucker of Virginia, 1888-1932. Tucker's career was distinguished primarily by its length. It began as Reconstructicn faded and concluded as ...
Verdi in Politics
Guiseppe Verdi, one of Italy's famous historical figures, was ironically born a Frenchman. At the time of his birth on October 9 or 10, 1813, Napoleon's administration controlled much of what we now call Italy. Napoleon ...