Essays Tagged: "revisionist"

To what extent were the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to end World War II? Includes Bibliography and Footnotes (if you care to message me for them)

l stress that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to end the war. The revisionist school argues that the atomic bomb was quite unnecessary. To what extent were the bombs ... weapon of war and should be used to bring the Japanese to an quick and unconditional surrender2.The revisionist relies on the theory that Japan was practically defeated, and tends towards accusing the ...

(6 pages) 257 6 4.4 Jun/2003

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

This is a response on the essay "Inside the Bunker" which was written about halocaust deniers.

for the delusion that the Germans didn't kill any Jews" (280). Because the implied reader is not a revisionist, the reader is likely to have a very similar initial reaction to "the people who say the ... e most middling of Middle Americans" instead of neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. While Sack respects the revisionist, he does discredit the deniers' argument of "No Holes? No Holocaust" with Charles Provan ...

(3 pages) 32 0 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Why do Marxist historians see the French Revolution of 1789 as 'Bourgeoisie'?

ainly from Marxist historians such as Soboul and Lefebvre and hopefully show the arguments from the revisionist's school of thought and illustrate how there are criticisms and comparatives which can a ...

(1 pages) 41 2 1.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution

Why do Marxist historians see the French Revolution of 1789 as 'Bourgeoisie'?

ainly from Marxist historians such as Soboul and Lefebvre and hopefully show the arguments from the revisionist's school of thought and illustrate how there are criticisms and comparatives which can a ... he society. These innovators took the lead in the Revolution, in order to finally profit from it" . Revisionist Colin Lucas, in his book Nobles, Bourgeoisies, and the Origins of the French Revolution ...

(9 pages) 106 1 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution

To what Extent Did German Foreign Policy Become More Openly Nazi Rather than Purely Nationalist in the Course of 1938?

ce in aims between the Nationalists and the Nazis, the nationalists wanted to follow a specifically revisionist policy, reversing what had been placed upon them at the treaty of Versailles regaining l ...

(3 pages) 29 0 2.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Robert Frost

a, The Courtship of Miles Standish. The Longfellow of this anthology is our late twentieth-century "revisionist" Longfellow, and except in poems such as "A Psalm of Life," he is almost unrecognizable ...

(2 pages) 52 2 3.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The Outbreak of World War 2 A Look at Orthodox and Revisionist Theories on the Origins of World War II and Personal Response

There are two major groups who hold differing opinions upon these questions: orthodox thinkers and revisionist thinkers.It is important to analyse the major events that occurred before the outbreak o ... and Britain now a minimal threat, Hitler seemed poise to fulfill his dreams.On the other hand, the revisionists hold Hitler's foreign policy and plans in disdain, claiming that Hitler had no grand in ...

(10 pages) 69 0 4.2 Jun/2004

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

The Stern Gang

he Holocaust, Avraham Stern formed his freedom fighters in a right wing response to what he and his revisionist members considered a solution to the British occupation on Palestine. Regarding Great Br ... sometimes considered to be terrorist, spun off from the popular anti-socialist Likud party, and the revisionist Israeli force called the Irgun, creating their own brand of Zionism.The Stern Gang was o ...

(6 pages) 32 0 2.7 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

An account of the cataclysmic changes from one way of life to another. Edward Thompson. The Making of the English Working Class.

from one way of life to another. Thompson manages to balance the complacency and narrowness of the revisionist position with his outstanding restoration of historical truth. He writes authoritatively ...

(5 pages) 22 0 5.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" reviewed by ADIL.

graduate, from the graduate student to the scholar) a most provocative companion to Old Man; it's a revisionist reading that will stimulate renewed critical interest (after an almost two-decade lapse) ...

(5 pages) 77 4 4.1 Sep/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

Account for the origins and development of the Cold War between USA and USSR up to 1962.

t-war world.There are three major common explanations for the origins of the Cold War: traditional, revisionist, and post-revisionist . Until the 1960s, most historians believed that the Cold War was ... ppeared who was willing to abandon that goal, the seemingly interminable Cold War soon melted away.'Revisionist historians tend to regard the outbreak of the Cold War as a result of American hostility ...

(11 pages) 126 0 4.6 Feb/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War