5000 Years of History.Wisdom. Heritage. Vision.
Industrial Revolution, nationalism, imperialism, WWI, Great Depression, totalitarianism & WWII. How science and industry changed the world.
Nations of Latin America ‐ this subject includes the Latin American independence, international relations and life in Latin America, during this period. The revolt of the Spanish colonists in Central and South America, was in some ways similar to the…
Growth of democracy in America includes – the foundation of a great nation, American Foreign Policy, American territorial expansion, effects of the frontier on America, the war between the States and growth of American industry. The history of the United…
Orient and Occident: India, “Pearl” of the British, the partition of China and the Westernization of Japan. China, Japan and India developed a distinctive culture. They were proud of their achievements and were satisfied to remain far removed from the…
Imperial Russia: The land, the people, autocracy, Pan-Slavism, Alexander II, limited reform and the background for later revolutions. Russia’s relationship to European history was undoubtedly affected by the geographical fact that she has been more Asian, than European. Most of…
Nationalism and Union in Germany and Italy include: Metternich and European affairs, Bismarck and European affairs and the struggle to unite Italy. Histories of Germany and of Italy were long intertwined as components of the Holy Roman Empire; when Napoleon…
Democratic reform in England and France: British political reforms of the 1800, England’s relations with Ireland and the Bourbon rule in France, reviews developments in England and France between 1815 and 1900. In 1815 the Congress of Vienna wrote a…
Slowly the train had puffed over the heights of the Lebanon Mountains. Now, at last, it was coasting down the eastern slope. Hasan Ali, an Arab trader, gazed ahead down onto the broad Syrian plains far below. Already in the…
On a January evening in 1896, a famous British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain, attended a banquet in honour of an Englishman about to go to Australia as a colonial governor. Chamberlain was called upon to make an after dinner speech. What…
In July 1858 a small fleet of American warships steamed into Tokyo Bay in Japan. The commander, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, had served during the War of 1812 and the war between the United States and Mexico (1846-1848). Perry’s voyage…