The French Revolution was a period of significant social and political changes in French history which had major impact on the political, social and cultural developments not only in France and Western Europe. Many historians studied the French Revolution and while they often disagreed over the relative significance of specific changes or developments, they agreed that the French Revolution is a very important event in modern history, and more radical than either the English or American Revolutions. ... State-Run Schooling Culture of France, as well as the world, was also changed by the revo...

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The period prior to the French Revolution in 1789 has been labeled the Ancien Regime. ... French philosopher Voltaire said it best when he described the feelings of the people of France leading up to the Revolution as a "civil war in every soul". ... The unique characteristics of the Ancient Regime in France allowed for a major social revolution in the 18th century, unseen at this time by any other nation. ... France suffered a rapidly rising population, a crushing burden of taxation, arbitrary absolutism and continual military defeat, factors that the British simply didn't have to push t...

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The French revolution was three phases rolled into one revolution. ... The first stage of the French Revolution was caused by financial crisis because they were in debt due to the American Revolution, nobles and clergy resisted taxation, and Louis XVI wanted his rights. ... The Directory was the last phase of French revolution. ... During the reaction the final constitution of the French revolution rose up called the Constitution of the Year III. ... The French Revolution would soon allow a small ambitious major to become a major world power....

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The French endured a long and bloody series of one single revolution also, and the world would never be the same. ... This regicide marked the second stage of the French Revolution and the first appearance of the National Convention which was headed by the radical Jacobin Society. This society gained a great deal of power as moderates drew back from their participation, and a period of distrust and conflict ensued as the nations surrounding France became more and more alarmed at the revolution. ... The final stage of the French Revolution occurred when the bourgeois failed at government and th...

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The Second Revolution would test liberty, equality, and fraternity in concept and in practice. ... In addition, emigr"es, royalists who fled France during the Revolution, promised their return with all of Europe behind them. ... They were the artisans, factory workers, wage earners, and those who most enjoyed the freedom brought by the Revolution. ... As a result, not only was the French army the largest in Europe, but the most emotionally driven. ... Hope and motivation within impoverished people can provide an unequaled resource for revolution. ...

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The American Revolution A History In this concisely drawn book that covers the colonial period from 1763 to 1790, the author attempts to explain the bases of the American Revolution. ... The author makes it really clear that enormous cultural, social, and economic changes were occurring in the colonies dating from the French and Indian War. ... In this book, the author offers his own interpretation of the importance of the Revolution. ... The Revolution broke all future branches in structure from Europe. ... The most interesting section of the book was the discussion of the French-Indian...

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In Charles Dickens' novel, "A Tale of Two Cities," the character, Madame Defarge, is used to enhance the disturbing entity of the French Revolution. Dickens uses Defarge's evolution as a character to emotionally connect the reader to the Revolution, as her personal life parallels the story of the French people as a whole. ... Madame Defarge's violent mien is unveiled at the storming of the Bastille-- the start of the French Revolution. ... Her personal story correlates with the broader story of mistreatment of the French people by their government, sparking the French Revolution...

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Italy and Germany had been unified not many decades earlier, Britain was enjoying the beneficial effects of an Industrial Revolution, and France was angry and thirsty for revenge over the loss of Alsace-Lorraine. ... The Moroccan crisis between France and Germany proved to be one "testing ground" for French allies Britain and Russia. ... Russia opposed this move, due to it's Serbian alliance after the Bosnian Crisis, resulting in Germany entering a war with Russia, and shortly thereafter with France, Russia's ally. The African crises had already bred hostilities between all of the...

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The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution It has, been variously called the "Western Miracle" (Rosenberg and Birdzell 42) and the "European Miracle," (Jones) but it is commonly known as the Industrial Revolution. ... This research examines why the Industrial Revolution took place in Europe, and why it did not occur elsewhere, specifically Asia. ... It is estimated that at the start of the fourteenth century, the combined peoples of France, Germany and Britain supported 15 percent of the population through peasant work (meaning that 85 percent of the population were peasants)....

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France was a predominant figure in the trading and exploitation of African slaves, in the ten years spanning 1720-30 French ships took over 85,0008 enslaved Africans to the plantations in the Americas. ... The centrality of the transatlantic slave trade to the economic growth in France was notably highlighted by C.L.R. James in his book "The Black Jacobins" when he stated "in 1789 the French West Indian Colony of San Domingo supplied almost two-thirds of the overseas trade for the nation.... The French Revolution lead to a huge social upheaval and the French Revolutionary wars b...

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As Erica Benner (2013) mentions in Nationalism: Intellectual Origins, a German reaction to the revolutions in America and France, which "claimed to found new national forms of legitimacy on universal, republican principles" (Benner 2013, p. 45), which was when the confederation of German states in 1800, or the Holy Roman Empire, were collapsing due to the pressure of the revolutionary wars. ... Fichte did support the French revolution initially, by even promoting the belief of using force to intervene in other countries and expand an ideology, and it illustrates the significant ideas of the ra...

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The brink of the French Revolution saw the fall of Louis XVI, and with his kingship lost, the path was clear for the rise of a powerful and influential military commander; Napoleon Bonaparte. ... The drained and unnerved French armies were eventually driven out of Madrid and back to France by the combined allied armies of Great Britain, Portugal and Spain. ... The brink of the French Revolution saw the fall of Louis XVI. ... Napoleon Bonaparte rose as the emperor of France in the latter stages of the French Revolution. ... The drained and unnerved French armies were eventually driven out of...

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Bismarck was a master of foreign affairs, the Bismarckian was primarily designed, to keep France, who he saw as Germany's fatal opponent, isolated. ... Bismarck negotiated the exceptional Austria-Hungary alliance of 1879 which was "the first formal alliance between two Great Powers concluded in peace-time since the outbreak of the French revolution and the end of the ancien régime set a rigid pattern which shaped international relations until the First World War." (2) Bismarck then negotiated the Three Emperor's Alliance (Austria, Germany, and Russia) in 1881. ... Bismarck co...

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The conflicting religious ideologies of the 16th century nearly destroyed France and sparked murderous conflict in the Netherlands and Germany. ... The massacres of Catholic Henry III of France 1589, Protestant William the Silent of the Dutch Republic 1584, and Protestant turned Catholic Henry IV of France 1610 after 19 failed attempts, as well as countless massacres and wars provoked by religious differences, impelled a new approach to governing. ... One Prussian in 25 was in uniform (whereas in France ration was 1: 250) and the Prussian system of training and equipping soldiers ranked at t...

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The balance of power of European states changed from 1848 to 1914 because of revolutions and certain unifications. ... Bismarck was eventually pressed by France as he knew that a patriotic war with France would drive the southern states into German owned land. But France declared war on Prussia to teach Germany a lesson. Germany and Austria were united and they destroyed the French army at Sedan and eventually France surrendered, and accepted Bismarck's harsh peace terms. ... France took parts of West and Central Africa. ...

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In the nineteenth century, a new era of imperialism began; this time followed the Industrial Revolution. ... As a result of the Industrial Revolution, countries needed colonies for raw materials to feed the increasing number of factories, markets for finished products, places to invest surplus capital, and places to send surplus population. ... Through the creation of global empires, the imperial powers helped spread the Industrial Revolution and the capitalist system around the world. ... The French invaded Western Africa, while the British were taking over Egypt. French planned on buildin...

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The religious policy investigates the impacts of the social revolution, the Reformation and the Treaty of Cateau Cambresis, which molded the religious affiliations of both crown and its colonists. ... The English and French had such models. ... An example is the French Revolution. ...

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In the two centuries before the French Revolution and the triumph of nationalism as a divisive force, Europe exhibited a greater degree of unity than appeared on the mosaic of its political surface. ... The French Revolution broke out in 1789, and its effects reverberated throughout much of Europe for many decades. ... The 19th century had itself seen the culmination of the Industrial Revolution that had begun in the 18th, but the transformation wrought by steam power, steel, machine-made textiles, and rail communications was only the beginning. ...

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The Digital Revolution may plow through national boundaries like a tornado, but wherever it touches down it rapidly develops indigenous characteristics and local (i.e., national) competitive power. ... And as for mass usage of smart cards, Europe, and especially France, is far ahead of the US. ... And in Europe, a French-led lobby wants to keep out American information, entertainment, and software on cultural grounds (although this effort to "protect" local culture, which has some validity, has also been a cover for protectionist economics). The French want officials of the European Union ...

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In the early part of the twentieth century, militarism was as prominent as ever, with the recent industrial revolution being the main factor. ... The other alliance: The Triple Entente, was made up of Great Britain, France and Russia. ... France joined Great Britain in 1904. ... The Russians refused Germany's demand and the Kaiser declared war on Russia and France. ... In the plan, German was to use two arms of their army in order to trap the French forces. ...

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Despite this, during the interwar period independence movements increasingly threatened the overstretched empires of the UK and France. ... For example, it is notable that many of the leaders of independence and liberation movements were Western educated Despite this, decolonization after 1945 was often characterized by revolution and periods of armed struggle. This can be seen in the case of China against Japan, Algeria against France, and Vietnam against the French and the USA. ...

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Life in 1850 was filled with revolutions, advancements in medicine, technology, economic growth and imperialism. ... Throughout the 19th century, Europe went through the Second Industrial Revolution. The Second Industrial Revolution caused the growth of coal, iron, electricity, petroleum, and steel. ... For example, France struggled with developing a new Parliament and Britain struggled with developing a new social policy. ... The mid nineteenth century was the period of the Second Industrial Revolution. ...

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Within Europe, the industrial revolution had created social distress and unease on the population. ... Thirdly, the industrial revolution which had left a surplus population allowed for colonial states to send out people to the settlements in Africa. ...

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After a gradual decline in Imperialistic views and ideals following the American and French revolutions, a sudden increase for colonial power ensued in Western Europe. ... After the 1820's many Western European countries had lost many of its colonies, such as France in America and Spain in South America. ... Financial burdens forced Ismail to concede most of Egypt's financial power over to France and Britain. ... Fears that other empires, such as France and Germany, would weaken trade due to increased tariffs and restrictions caused Britain to tighten its grip on its other establi...

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Starting with the earliest of intelligent human beings, arguably hominids, all the way to the French Revolution, where the angry population would rise up against the King, this paper will explore the evolution of man from the hominids to the highly enlightened people of the 18th century. ... The intellectual revolution, known as the Enlightenment, would bring in new ideas of rationalism and secularism still widely used today. ...

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