Causes of the Great Depression (Read Indira Gandhi’s 1975 Britannica essay on global underprivilege.) Cyclical poverty Cyclical poverty refers to poverty that may be widespread throughout a population, but the occurrence itself is of limited duration. In nonindustrial societies (present and past),...
dengue,acuteinfectiousmosquito-bornefever that is temporarily incapacitating but rarely fatal. Besides fever, thediseaseis characterized by an extreme pain in and stiffness of thejoints(hence the name “breakbone fever”). Complication of dengue fever can give rise to a more severe form, calledden...
Politics, Law & Government Law, Crime & Punishment police in Watts, 1966 Police searching men in the Watts district of Los Angeles in March 1966, seven months after the confrontations between police and residents that became known as the Watts Riots and that were followed by ongoing tension ...
Renewed colonial rivalry, moreover, brought an end to the relatively peaceful conditions of the mid-19th century, with theSouth African War(the Boer War), theFirst Sino-Japanese War, theSpanish-American War, and theRusso-Japanese Waramong those that ushered in this new era. Much of the conf...