and then workers would naturally revolt, leading to communism whereby the workers would become the dominant social class and collectively control the means of production. But, like Adam Smith and David Ricardo before him, Marx predicted that because of capitalism's relentless pursuit of profit by w...
World War I, as an event, provides a clear break to this narrative in intellectual history revolving around the (arguably dominant) British tradi-tion because before 1914 anthropology was an armchair discipline; aft er the war, it never would be again. Of course, this is a very general and...
British raj, period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent following the uprising of 1857 and the abolition of the East India Company’s role in managing the region. It was instituted with the Government of India Act of 1858 and lasted until
British fears of another mutiny and consequent determination to bolster Indian states as “natural breakwaters” against any future tidal wave of revolt thus left more than 560 enclaves of autocratic princely rule to survive, interspersed throughout British India, for the entire nine decades of crown...
Global financial markets are rocked as Papandreou calls for a referendum on the latest EU bailout plan. He promptly faces an internal revolt, as members of his own party call for him to resign, and the opposition demands early elections. ...
Symbolism originated in the revolt of certain French poets against the rigid conventions governing both technique and theme in traditional Frenchpoetry, as evidenced in the precise description ofParnassianpoetry. The Symbolists wished to liberate poetry from its expository functions and its formalized or...
Owners of enslaved people in the South reacted to the 1831 Nat Turner slave revolt in Virginia by passing laws to discourage antislavery activism and prevent the teaching of enslaved people to read and write. Despite this repression, a growing number of Black Americans freed themselves from ...
on free Blacks. Owners of enslaved people in the South reacted to the 1831Nat Turnerslave revolt inVirginiaby passing laws to discourage antislavery activism and prevent the teaching ofenslaved peopleto read and write. Despite this repression, a growing number ofBlack Americansfreed themselves from...