Essays Tagged: "Eric Hobsbawm"

How significant a problem was unemployment in the inter war years in Britain?

the north and west midlands such as Bristol as well as Wales and Scotland.In the words of historian Eric Hobsbawm "Now all that remained was the grime and the terrible silence of the factories and min ...

(4 pages) 48 0 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Outline the causes of Discontent experienced by the population in the 19th Century?

ice of homegrown wheat had improved. Low wheat prices forced poor farmers to go out of business. As Eric Hobsbawm points out "The Corn Laws which the farming industry imposed on the country in 1815 we ... f the economy, but rather to preserve the abnormally high profits of the Napoleonic war years...." (Eric Hobsbawm, The Birth of the Industrial Revolution 1999). Industrial businesses suffered with the ...

(8 pages) 36 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

The industrial revolution transformed British popular culture, discuss.

play, as in cudgelling, is to... fetch blood from the others head...taking a little skin from his pericranium, or drawing a stream from his nose, or knocking out a few of his teeth'From Robert Malcol ... r themselves the conditions under which these people were almost forced to live under. Marxist, Frederick Engels studied Manchester closely when writing his book 'The Conditions of the Working class i ...

(6 pages) 62 0 4.2 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

The Great Depression

titudes about this period. The Age of Extremes, The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991, written by Eric Hobsbawm, who experienced the depression first hand, exaggerates somewhat the social suffering ... e statistics, 22-23 per cent unemployment in Britain in 1932-33, and between 22 and 44 percent in America, and the rest of Europe , which would tell any informed reader that unemployment was at disast ...

(4 pages) 88 0 5.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Communest Manifesto

the Communist Manifesto In review of the Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, with an introduction done by Eric Hobsbawm, I feel that the book was way ahead of its ... p invited Marx and Engels to draft the new Manifesto, which expounds the Leagues aims and policies. Eric Hobsbawm states that the Communist Manifesto is the most influential piece of political writing ...

(3 pages) 42 0 1.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Coexistence of capitalism and democracy, tension between capitalism and democracy

how they are combined together to create tensions and when did the combination happen? According to Eric Hobsbawm, in "The Age of Empire", he argues that fusion between economies and politic appeared ... unctional representation, civil rights advocate right to form association, social rights advocate clerical control of education and political rights advocate every individual's participation in voting ...

(7 pages) 44 0 3.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

national front

1948 y finales de 1950 / principios de 1960 conocidas como La Violencia , y que se caracterizan por Eric Hobsbawm como la mayor movilización campesina en el hemisferio occidental en el siglo 20 ... ular indiferentes o pacifistas ; al menos, no claramente peor en este sentido que sus pares latinoamericanos. Se necesita una explicación de grano más fino.Colombia ha tenido tantos proc ...

(4 pages) 0 0 0.0 May/2014

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science