Why was Edward II of England killed? Why did tyranny decline in ancient Greece? Why was absolute monarchy created? Why did the people of the Third Estate revolt? Why was the feudal system a successful political structure? Why were emigrants killed in the French Revolution? Why did the Victori...
The French Revolution began in 1789 and occurred across a number of years, eventually culminating in the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. This revolution brought down the powerful monarchical system of France and induced considerable instability which was felt across much of Europe....
It all went back to Nimrod, he was saying. Nimrod, great-grandson of Noah and the “mighty hunter before the Lord,” who had attempted to unite the world’s population by building the Tower of Babel so that humanity might climb up to Heaven itself. “And God intervened, ...
Again it was the Liberal, rationalist, anti-Vatican, patrician leadership who regained power after the defeat of the Sonderbund and who maintained it in distant alliance with the very different sort of liberalism represented in the victorious Protestant cantons until the 1870s. These conflicts, the...
Men and women of the same totem donot share meals, and as unmarried adults they avoid one another during leisure.The question of why no incest was a sub-problem of that of avoidance between per-sons of the same totem and different sex. O’Neill (1973) neglected Durkheim onincest.Now a...