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Hace 2 días · Goodwin’s fundamental belief in the important role individuals play in historical events, and the consequent value in studying leaders and the art of leadership, underpins this book from the outset. The analysis, however, is never reduced to a simplistic ‘great man’ interpretation of history.
Hace 4 días · Examples range from Adolf Hitler’s Germany, the Soviet Union, and Communist China to America’s New Deal and Great Society, and the French Popular Front of the 1930s. Though he does not equate despotisms that violated human rights with liberal democracies that upheld them, Maier does defend the project-state as an analytical category that captures important shared characteristics.
Hace 3 días · But, although it was possible to be rich and influential in this society without owning broad acres, it was the landed elite that set the cultural tone and dominated positions of power in both central and local government.
Hace 2 días · Edward Pessen. United States - Abolitionism, Slavery, Emancipation: Finally and fatally there was abolitionism, the antislavery movement. Passionately advocated and resisted with equal intensity, it appeared as late as the 1850s to be a failure in politics.
Hace 2 días · United States - Revivalism, Sects, Denominations: Religion played a central role in the emergence of a distinctively “American” society in the first years of independence. Several key developments took place.
Hace 5 días · Albertus Magnus OP (c. 1200 – 15 November 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great, Albert of Swabia or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop, considered one of the greatest medieval philosophers and thinkers.
Hace 2 días · In the 1960s, Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society used the New Deal as inspiration for a dramatic expansion of progressive programs, which Republican Richard Nixon generally retained. However, after 1974 the call for deregulation of the economy gained bipartisan support.
