The Industrial Revolution was a historical event that established new patterns of globalization. ... Corporations emerged from Britain and France between the 1850s-1860s as a product of the industrial revolution that altered the pattern market globalization. ... Industrialization had spread to Belgium, France, and Germany by the mid-nineteenth century. ... Around the same time, French engineers and inventors developed refinements and innovations that led to greater efficiencies, especially in metallurgical industries. German industrialization began at a slower pace than Belgium and France; nev...

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The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Period ignited a great expansion of revolutionary concepts as some of history's greatest thinkers emerged. ... During the Scientific Revolution, people dared to believe in theories that were not necessarily handed to them by leading organizations. ... Philosophes in France acted as a perfect portrayal of the general aspirations that were aroused during this time period. ... During the Scientific Revolution, a new social group was created known as the international scientific community. ... Throughout the Enlightenment, this uncontrollable de...

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Although the French Revolution was at the heart of the Enlightenment, similar ideas served as driving forces of the American, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions as well. ... French revolutionary Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced this idea of natural rights and inspired other countries to evaluate the nature of man and origins of inequality1. ... The French felt that intuitions were corrupting the nature of man, and believed that starting over without them would be most effective in restoring order within the country. ... They adopted the French concept of "Freedom, equality, brotherh...

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To the British, French, and Germans, the primary colonizing nations, the individual needs of their colonial subjects were not important. ... Some of the major colonizers known to date are France, Denmark, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom (LCN). ... A third and more breathtaking revolution occurred in the economic side was steam-powered equipment's that were perfected and applied to one producing process after another. Equally the fresh tools created a new form of production firm in economic revolution known as the factory. These revolutions had been an extraordinary surge in the gro...

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The 'Great Empire' is often referred to as a single entity embracing French controlled Europe, but territories were in fact separated depending on the levels of French control. ... This shows that countries geographically close to France were directly ruled because they would act as a protective zone to France from attacks from enemies and troops could quickly be called upon if required by France, which agrees with Napoleon when he justifies that the creation of the Empire is for the protection of France and for France to gain the rewards from. ... However, the French soon began to...

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Enlightenment greatly influenced the French Revolution to emphasize the importance of the person who caused a boost to the universal rights through the use of reason and logic that caused people to examine the intelligence of the social hierarchy traditional, and challenging traditional authority figures, such as King of France. " The Enlightenment and religion is so important to argued that an exaggeration of the role of deism has led to a lack of commitment to traditional religious forces for change (Black). ... "While Enlightenment thinkers were simply looking at the world in a more empir...

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Depict for us in your vivid style or in your fervent paintings the titanic struggle of the people against their oppressors; inflame young hearts with the beautiful breath of revolution which inspired our anarchism"1. ... Indeed, Marinetti's close links to French avant-garde artists is illustrated in his choice of a French, rather than Italian, newspaper for the launch of his Futurist movement, on February 20 1909 he published the first Futurist Manifesto in Paris paper 'Le Figaro' , a move indicative of a partial ideological and artistic overlap between the two movements. ... ...

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The south was predominantly catholic thus bonding with France and Austria, so to join these two together would ensure deplorability of difference and religion. ... The failure of the Frankfurt Diet and the 1848 Revolution influentially and undoubtedly suppressed a great bearing on the failure of unification before 1860. ... Aware of these happenings, Austria, in account of her "might" crushed the common military union at Erfurt at Olmutz during the 1848 revolution, thus disabling and preventing further nationalist movements forward. ... There was an equally important factor of lack of for...

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Jacob Leisler, his grandfather and chief counselor to the Counts of Oettingen, Reverend Jacob Victorian Leisler, his father and pastor of the Frankfurt-am-Main French Reformed congregation, and the noted Huguenot theologian Simon Goulart. ... In the New World, Leisler catapulted to fame in 1689 when, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution, he assumed the role of King William III's governor of New York. ... Other historians see in Leisler's assumption of the New York government a forerunner of the American Revolution. ... In the New World, Leisler catapulted to fame in 16...

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Hobbes's pragmatic view of government, which stressed the equality of individuals, opened the way to free criticism of government and the right to revolution, ideas that Hobbes himself opposed. ... Thomas Jefferson also echoed Locke in the Declaration of Independence and in later pronouncements defending revolutions, attacking paternalistic government, and upholding free expression of unpopular opinions. In France, Locke's philosophy was taken over by the leaders of the French Enlightenment, notably by the author and philosopher Voltaire. ... For Voltaire as for the French philosoph...

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In the Early Modern Era, The Scientific Revolution changed the way individuals viewed themselves and the world around them. ... Ideals of nationalism and representative government spread throughout Europe, with the first major wave beginning in France in 1789. The French Revolution lasted until 1815, when the European conservative order re-established itself. The French Revolution was an influential period of social and political upheaval inspired by liberal and radical ideas. The Revolution greatly altered the course of modern history, triggering the global decline of theocracies and ab...

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The comparison between anti-terrorist systems of the Republic of Ireland and France is a good illustration of this: the former aims to fight an essentially separatist terrorism finding its expression in the activities of the Irish Republican Army (since, contrary to received ideas, the IRA is not only a terrorist organization specific to Northern Ireland) and the country is forced to combat all the forms of terrorism that exist (separatist, communist, internationalist or emanating from isolated groups). ... Ireland, although it is a young independent State, enacted legislation aimed at combatt...

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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. France, where on the fall of Napoleon the Bourbon dynasty had been restored, although losing a great deal of its empire after the defeat of Napoleon re-emerged as a major power through its expanding commercial entrepreneurial ventures and its g...

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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). ... This was also largely paradoxical to the anti-colonist foundation of the United States, and brings to mind Patrick Henry's reflection of American sentimen...

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With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relati...

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Gibbon was born in 1737, a young man of delicate health and fairly good fortune; he had a partial and interrupted education at Oxford, and then he completed his studies in Geneva; on the whole his outlook was French and cosmopolitan rather than British, and he was much under the intellectual influence of that great Frenchman who is best known under the name of Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1694 1778). ... "This awful revolution," wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, "may be usefully applied to the useful instruction of the present age. ... The Barbarian world was agitated by th...

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The French Union (the new name for the Empire) of 1946 is a clear example of desperation to keep the Empire together with its indissoluble unity.1 The matters of France, its overseas territories, and associated states and territories, which was the new concept for Indochina (simply because they underestimated the ongoing insurgency to French imperialism), were mostly now part of metropolitan France. ... The French control was assured through the President of France being the President of the Union, and a significant French representation in the Supreme Council and the Assembly of the Union. Pe...

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During the late 19th century, the Cambodian king at the time turned to the French for assistance, as Cambodia had been suffering from constant threat of invasion from both the Vietnamese and the Thai people. As a result, Cambodia was established under the French protectorate and became part of the so-called French Indochina region. This period, though it brought economic development to the region, also caused a strong sense of nationalism among Cambodians, since they were forced to pay heavy taxes to the French regime (Franchini 1988). This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing th...

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For example, French Anarcho-communist author Daniel Guerin outlines the manner in which anarchism would organize the workplace by the form of worker self-management known as syndicalism. ... Guerin writes of a "three-tier organization of the workplace" which was seen in the Spanish Revolution, consisting of a general assembly just as Occupy, a workers council functioning as a smaller deliberative body like the working groups of Occupy, and a management committee which serves as an executive organ. ...

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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. ... Poverty in the colonies thus increased, fueled not only by the efforts of cutthroat capitalists at the top, but by warfare with the French and a continued influx of European immigrants. ...

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For example, Britain sells tweed jackets and country sportswear to French aristocrats who pay for it by selling wine to the British. ... Similarly, the nineteenth century proved to be an era of increased international commerce, triggered by the industrial revolution but, in the 1930s, this economic expansion was reversed as political turmoil created the Great Depression. ...

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