This contradiction implied that the American Revolutionary War, instead of being a random, passionate incident, was in truth an inevitable event that ensued from certain political and economic conditions that was bound to happen in the Thirteen Colonies but not the Province of Quebec. ... They concluded that the rebels, who had campaigned to conquer their territory, insulted the Catholic religion, and belittled their culture, should be kept outside of Quebec.vi Multiple cultural and historical disagreements had alienated the Province of Quebec, not to mention the fact that they had never real...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The role and importance of Africa to the British soon changed though do to imperial competition with France and Germany. ... Using their information on British expansion throughout Africa as a foundation it becomes possible to break down the period of greatest growth between 1880 and 1900 by analyzing British role in Africa prior to 1880, the external roles that competitors such as Germany and France had in forcing England's imperial hand coupled with the internal economic drives for procuring areas of Africa, and the special case and significance of the Cape Colony and British Afrikaner ...

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I intend to investigate these areas, in addition to labour relations, education and the class system, as I feel that they have a distinct bearing on the late Victorian economic climate. The "technological retardist" theories are strongest in considering the erosion of "King Cotton` s" pre eminence, due in part to America` s competition and, the critics suggest, the British cotton manager` s lack of judgement. ... Here is the history of an industry that supplied one of the essential ingredients of modern economic life, is clear-cut evidence of a British resistance to technological change" ...

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The new wealth of the Transvaal gave the Boers more passion for independent governance and their own economic freedom. The Boers tried to secure their own economic footholds by searching for an outlet to the sea. ... Because there was a transfer of economic power from the Cape to the Transvaal, there was a shift in population of Englishmen to the Rand. ... Many imperialists were disdained over the loss of Britain's direct political and economic links. ... International competition and the partition of Africa into European colonies and spheres of influence had not passed southern Afri...

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The findings of this study show that broadcasting - radio in particular - has become the dominant news source for the nation, an effective instrument of propaganda for the government and a powerful influence in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the Zambian people. ... What was achieved initially, benefited urban audiences and has been constrained by problems of manpower, the replacement of equipment and equipment spares, created by inadequate funding and other problems arising from the country's general economic difficulties. ... But now, instead of becoming a synonym ...

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Capitalism is an economic system where such items that can generate monetary value are owned by private businesses and corporations which trade in a 'free market' of competition. ... In this essay, I will examine the actions of both the European nations and later on the newly independent United States to distinguish if the transatlantic slave trade was the main contributor to the development of a capitalist modernity by looking at four major developments in the social and economic structure of the world from 1440-1870. ... The centrality of the transatlantic slave trade to the econo...

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An economist, Collier (2000 :91 & 96) claims that 'conflicts can easily occur in a society based on the various economic opportunities than by grievance,' and 'grievance-based explanations of civil war are so seriously wrong', thus, this is supported by three major findings of his work which are; primary products that are exported,  high level of illiteracy in a society give rise to high rate of civil war because this people lack knowledge, and they can be easily swayed to destroy what belongs to government. ... Over time, competition sprang up among families as a result...

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Colonialism, Europeans argues, brought the end of slavery in East and Central Africa and stopped inter-kingdom warfare in parts of West Africa (exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu) The Three main reasons that applied to European colonialism were • Political/ Strategic influence • Cultural influence • Economic influence (exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu) It was also resourceful for Europeans to acquire cheap labor and national influence. ... Slavery was abolished in Britain because of a change in economic interests, resistance from enslaved people, parliamentary reform, and abolition...

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The first category includes such details as the economic, political and social condition in the countries of emigration. ... Our topic put immigrants at the center stage by raising the causes such as the early immigration, condition of exit, and the consequences such as economic, socio-politic and how the country looked for to resolve the issue of entrants and receiving context and the cohesion between black and white people in Britain. ... It is made for many reason including economic political, family re-unification, national disaster, poverty or the wish to change one's surrounding vo...

• Word Count: 4568
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Clarkson attended Cambridge University and won an essay competition; the essay's title was "Is it right to make men slaves against their will " For this essay he had done considerable research which opened his eyes to the abhorrent truths of slavery. ... With both the moral and economic side of the slave trade covered the middle- class campaigners were working towards the abolition of slavery with no stone unturned; they made what they stood for known to the rest of the middle-class , the working-class (with pictures and other propaganda) and to all of the Members of Parliament. ...

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