Why did the colonies need England during the Seven Years' War? Why did Britain abolish the slave trade in 1807? Why was tobacco so important to the Jamestown colony? Why did capitalism emerge from the Industrial Revolution? Why was feudalism successful in the Middle Ages?
How did China and Japan develop modern economies? How did Emperor Meiji improve Japan? How did the daimyo influence Japan? What effect did industrialization have on Japan's government? How was the Meiji Restoration not capitalism-based? Why did the shoguns close off Japan to the wider world?
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While some anarchists in the nineteenth century did argue that capitalism was marked by falling real wages, this was more a product of the time they were living through rather than an universal law. Most anarchists today argue that whether wages rise or fall depends on the social and economic ...
Developing from this idea of rebellion, Russians used red to empower communism, having it represent “the blood of the workers who died in the struggle against capitalism”4. The word red in Russian “красивый” is also very similar to the word beautiful in Russian “красн...
We suggest that, even if China compared well with the West in key economic features - commercialization and commodification of goods, land, labor - up to the 18th century, it did not traverse the path to Capitalism because of the "fact of empire". Lacking the scale o...
As a rule of thumb, capitalism is risk-averse. It requires predictable forms of labour in order to ensure consistent, predictable profits – which is at odds with artists’ desires (and cultural expectation of them) to experiment and innovate constantly. With their oxymoronic name, ‘commercial...
To start, we did get the feeling that North Korea was changing a bit. We visited Tongil Market in Pyongyang where capitalism seemed to be on the move, and as mentioned perhaps more tellingly, were not allowed to take photos of it, lest it represent to the outside world that the free ...
“Why did détente develop between 1969 and 1979?” Détente developed between 1969 and 1979 due to improved relations between the USA and the USSR. The end of the Vietnam War improved relations between the USA, USSR and China. Leaders were in contact and numerous summits such as SALT 1 an...
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