orgreen revolution n. A significant increase in agricultural productivity beginning in the 1940s and resulting from the introduction of high-yield varieties of grains, the use of pesticides, and improved management techniques. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copy...
not improvements for the citizens Almost all Latin American nations were run by a caudillo, who claimed to be a president but ruled as a dictator After independence, there was little change for common people; creoles & caudillos took power from the peninsulares but did not ...
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia (named after him!) He later joined forces with Jose de San Martin Martin had defeated the Spanish in Argentina and Chile previously
Yet his school record was so undistinguished that, after graduating from the Polytechnical School, he was unable for several years to get an academic position, not even one as a lecturer. To support himself, he took a job as an assistant examiner at a patent office, which had the ad...
The sole musical special by The Monkees was shot right after their movie "Head." This special was a very strange effort. The producer, Jack Good, was known in Britain for his musical programs.However, it is unclear as to his familiarity with The Monkees, or American audiences. This special...
The American and French Revolutions were two events that took place in the latter-half of the 1700s. The Americans wanted to form their own government separate from that of England, while the French wanted to reform their existing government to b...
These three concepts of revolution, I argue, all gave late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century actors an unusual degree of flexibility—which did not exist before or after the period—in describing the temporal and causal dynamics of revolutionary change.Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan...
There are few things less becoming to the study of human affairs than the complacency of a triumphal age. At the close of the twentieth century the world was able to contemplate, in a manner never previously possible, the prospect of an age of democratic peace. After two world wars and a...
American Economic Review, 97, 1, 64-88... A Atkeson,PJ Kehoe - 《American Economic Review》 被引量: 0发表: 2007年 Unleashing a golden age after the financial collapse: Drawing lessons from history Techno-economic paradigmsTechnological revolutionsThe current crisis is not a "black swan" but ...
After the Herero ‘Uprising’: Child Separation and Racial Apartheid in German Southwest Africa Childhood HistoryFrench RevolutionGenderMotherhood Child Gangs and Motherly Duty at the Onset of Revolution Prix de Moralité: The Inculcation of Young French Citizens...