In answer to this question, we must first determine who the major powers of Europe were at the end of the Napoleonic Wars before we can look at the similarities and differences between them. ... The common aims of the Great powers were beginning to take shape; France was surrounded by a group of buffer states to add protection against possible French aggression in the future. ... Russia on the other hand was slow to benefit from the technological discoveries of the industrial revolution; their economy grew at a much more sedate pace. ... In both Great Britain and France, states that h...

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Once they had begun funding the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that informed their reports to Washington," (Bradley 94). ... [lacking] traditions of indigenous governance," with French rule being an insult to that injury (83, 84). ... What we can surmise from this was that sympathy for the Vietnamese people was secondary – if not a means to an end -- to global strategic considerations at th...

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In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. He defeats the notion that the period was one of economic and cultural dependence on the English, and he proves that a uniquely American culture was forged not from the fire of the Revolution, but instead from the dynamic changes that occurred during this often-overlooked period. ... Largely, this was due to a shortage of European indentured servants, an end to the Royal African Company's monopoly...

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