Causes of the Great Depression

Really helpful post from scoop2go 1. False Prosperity * overdependence on mass production, consumer spending, advertising, welfare capitalism, high tariff, “invisible hand” * automobile was the leading industry * chemicals, appliances, radio, aviation, chain stores * overproduction in textiles, farming, autos * real wages increased only 11% * 60% population less than $2000 poverty minimum [...]

The Rise of Empire: Navy and Trade

The British Empire was the result of maritime expansion. From the seventeenth century new maritime growth underpinned the evolution of an international trade network. British economic, military and cultural influence was felt globally. As the British government and private firms developed they protected this infrastructure through an intimate economic partnership. This alliance provided new goods [...]

Were the Anglo-Dutch wars inconclusive?

The Anglo-Dutch Wars were a sporadic series of conflicts during the second half of the seventeenth century (1652–54, 1665–67, 1672–74)

The British Navy 1660-1805

How did the British Navy develop between 1660 and 1805? What were its main functions? Where did it operate and for what purposes? Most importantly, how did the role of the navy contribute to the development of the British Empire?

Fenton and Robertson: Crimean Photographers

This is Roger Fenton’s mobile dark room. His Crimean War photographs represent one of the earliest systematic attempts to document a war through the medium of photography. Fenton, who spent fewer than four months in the Crimea (March 8 to June 26, 1855), produced 360 photographs under extremely trying conditions. While these photographs present a [...]

The Wall Steet Crash didn’t cause the depression

The Wall Street Crash made a significant contribution to the onset of the Great Depression. It was a catastrophic downturn in share values caused by over-speculation. There had been repeated warnings during the “Roaring Twenties”, a time of prosperity, that the high values could not be sustained, but speculation continued nonetheless. Over a period of [...]

What did the Crimean war mean for Europe?

Here we consider the effect of the Crimean War across Europe in its balance of power, and (in greater detai)l upon the foreign and domestic policies in Britain

Notes on Cardwell’s reforms (Effects of the Crimean War)

Arguably, the greatest effect of the Crimean war came not from the advancement of new military technology, nor from medical or nutritional reforms but directly from the incredible inefficiency of its military organization. The failures of the army started to become apparent during the Crimean war, when WH Russell of The Times reported extensively and [...]

Alexis Soyer: the Jamie Oliver of the Crimean War

Alexis Soyer was a celebrity chef in the midst of the Crimean War Napoleon emphasized an important fact when he said that an army marched on its stomach; he took good care that his armies should feed upon the plentiful food of the land which he was invading. When, as in the invasion of Russia, [...]

So did the Civil Rights movement work?

I’m defining the American Civil Rights Movement as the reform group in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring suffrage in the Southern states. I’m thinking of the era between 1954 and 1968.