Colonialism
Essays

The Republic of South Africa as it is officially known is a burgeoning international market for trade and investment. Since the establishment of freedom from apartheid in 1994 the country has seen dramatic political,…

The economic situation of any specific geographic and geopolitical area is an integral part of the overall "picture" of the state of that area. Although much is said about the increasing "globalization" of the world…

This is a four page anthropology paper that involves "flipping the perspective." Anthropologists have different ways of approaching their research, that is, different methods for doing research and writing, as well as different research goals. Depending on an author's particular research interests, "culture" and "transformation" can come to mean several different things. Here, I ask you to reflect on this by "flipping the perspective" of the 2 main ethnographers, Evans-Pritchard, E. E. and Tsing, Anna. For example, how would Evans-Pritchard approach

Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 occupies a distinct position in the history of humanity. Riding on the tail of the French Revolution, in which the Declaration of the Rights of Man paved the way for a new paradigm of…

Nationalism and Anthony Smith's anti-primordialism in his view of modern Asiatic history and the construction of what is 'Asia'

Of the 25,000 plus islands that grace the Pacific Ocean, only a relatively few are inhabited by human beings. A large number of the Pacific Islands are tiny, with few if any natural resources.

Lenin begins Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by describing World War I as an imperialist war, which he defines as a predatory war to plunder and annex, a war for the benefit of capitalistic moneyed…

This essay reviews Nancy Bisaha's book Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and Ottoman Turks, and looks at how the book suffers from a lack of discussion regarding contemporary issues. In particular, while the book succeeds in its stated goals, the self-evident relation to contemporary issues makes the reader look for something in the book that can connect its historical discussion to issues of more immediate importance. Sadly, aside from a few cursory mentions of 9/11, the book lacks such a discussion.

This paper deals with three articles and their respective reviews in regards to the current education climate in America. Each one is reflected upon and criticized. Differing levels of analysis along with use of present day circumstances in American education help to illustrate which parts of the articles were informative and which were merely fluffed up opinion.

There were two Reconstructions in American history, although the first one in 1865-77 ended with restoration of home rule and white supremacy in the South, rather than the equal citizenship and voting rights promised in the 14th and 15th Amendments. Black leaders like Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King made a case that the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution did form a basis for extending the same natural rights to all human beings, even if that had not really been the intent of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.