For most people, the problem of adjusting to some foreign way of life is a cultural shock, but the demands on these people to give up their old cultural habits for those of the modern nineteenth century were often ...

The Western world, particularly western Europe has always viewed the Far Eastern regions of Asia through a socially constructed lens that Edward Said coined Orientalism. Yet, this scholarly attribute to the West's view of ...

The voluntary organizations and social groups of the Revolutionary War became ingrained in American society, and increased in popularity after the war. These bodies became an essential marker of class and social distinction ...

On March 28th, 1939 General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist army successfully occupied Madrid, Spain after laying siege to it for almost two years. Just three days later on April 1st, the three year war of attrition ...

French colonialism during the interwar period is easily an under-studied terrain both with respect to studied colonial images and the historical underpinnings of the period. Scholars of this period consider French colonial ...

It will be the argument of this study that the activity described in the Libellus constituted a Revolution of its own fashion. It seems clear to me that the early Dominicans were defined by a number of principles: they ...

This paper discusses the origins, characteristics, and developments of living history museums. In order to develop these ideas, it has been divided into four main sections which examine living history museums in a ...

Born and raised in the United States, Harry Gordon Selfridge was a revolutionary entrepreneur who changed the way shopping was done in Great Britain during the twentieth century, a time when British retail was not necessarily ...