reasons for the war really were. But they might leave out little key parts that aren’t beneficial to their view. Did the Northern industrialists want a war to end slavery? No‚ not to end slavery‚ but to end the South or‚ put more accurately‚ they wanted an end to the Southern power and influence in the Nation. They‚ or those members of the industrialist clique‚ who dominated the Republican Party then‚ were determined to dominate the country by whatever means; but slavery was too profitable
Premium Slavery American Civil War Slavery in the United States
How Far was Mussolini’s Control of Italy in the Years 1925-43 Dependent on the Use of Terror Extra Time – didn’t finish It is applicable through a number of factors that Mussolini utilised terror and depended on these measures in order to gain control over Italy. He organised a secret police called the OVRA‚ whereby dissidents were spied upon and severely beaten up as well as often being imprisoned without trial. This created much fear for citizens and opponents‚ leading them to be faithful to Fascism
Premium Fascism Benito Mussolini
“Hitler was able to establish a dictatorship because he banned other political parties”. Do you agree? Explain your answer. The rise of Hitler as a dictator was one involving many different factors. The political parties caused him a very challenging problem‚ and by banning them it undoubtedly helped him secure all-out rule. But was it the only reason why Hitler managed to establish himself as a dictator‚ and if not‚ is it the main one? Hitler knew that the many opposition parties would pose him
Free Adolf Hitler Nazism Nazi Germany
The Conflict of Classes: Liberal and Marxist Theories Ralph Raico Few economists are as celebrated for their knowledge of modern intellectual history as Albert O. Hirschman. Yet in his well-known work The Rhetoric of Reaction‚ Hirschman is obviously at a loss when confronted with a clear statement of the classical liberal doctrine of class conflict‚ in Vilfredo Pareto’s Cours d’économie politique (1896-97). Here Pareto speaks of the struggle to appropriate the wealth produced by others as “the great
Premium Marxism Karl Marx Social class
"Robber Barons" Long hours‚ dangerous work conditions‚ and low wages are just a few words to describe the treatment of workers at the turn of the 20th century. This was all in the hands of some powerful industrialist we refer to as "robber barons". There can be no mistaking their motives: wealth. It portrays men like Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller‚ Pullman‚ Ford and cruel and ruthless businessmen who would stop at nothing to achieve great wealth.They cared little about the lives and treatment of those
Premium Robber barons 19th century Gilded Age
explain in the chapter of the book there is a clear inherent antagonism between the interests of planters and the interests of industrialists. Both sides wanted to have control of the federal government. Many small farmers with a few slaves and yeomen were linked to elite planters through the market economy which in root was their main source of income whereas industrialists sought to expand innovatively and produce in those means. Following the Beards’s‚ in 1970 Eric Foner made several claims supporting
Premium American Civil War Abraham Lincoln United States
formed the growing of industry in America as highly regarded captains of industry or fraudulent robber barons. The robber barons were industrialists who possessed the majority of wealth in America. This wealth gained was mostly through the expense of others‚ creating a greater space between the fortunate and the less fortunate ones. Captains of industry were industrialists that did the opposite. They assisted the American growth positively whether it was through the economy or acts of philanthropy which
Free John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Standard Oil
Seidman argued “the Enlighteners… saw in the scientific worldview a triumph of reason over prejudice.” Seidman also states “the thinkers of enlightenment aimed both to understand human behavior and use science to promote freedom and progress.” (Seidman 12) Both these statements emphasizes the importance of the cience when it comes to study and understand society. During the enlightenment era sociologist had the scientific worldview and wanted to use the science to understand human behavior. Seidman
Premium United States Employment Working class
An outburst in growth of America’s big city population‚ places of 100‚000 people or more jumped from about 6 million to 14 million between 1880 and 1900‚ cities had become a world of newcomers (551). America evolved into a land of factories‚ corporate enterprise‚ and industrial worker and‚ the surge in immigration supplied their workers. In the latter half of the 19th century‚ continued industrialization and urbanization sparked an increasing demand for a larger and cheaper labor force. The country’s
Premium United States City Industrial Revolution
Birla Basant Kumar Birla Aditya Birla Kumar Mangalam Birla Yasho Aditya Vikram Birla (14 November 1943 – 1 October 1995)‚ was an Indian industrialist. Born into one of the largest business families of India‚ Birla oversaw the diversification of his group into textiles‚ petrochemicals and telecommunications. He was one of the first Indian industrialists to expand abroad‚ setting up plants in South east Asia‚ the Philippines and Egypt‚ among other places. His unexpected death at the age of 52
Premium Birla family Aditya Birla Group