Academic papers on European History

The European Union
This 10 page paper provides an overview of the governing institutions of the European Union. The European Council, Parliament and Commission are discussed in detail as are the three courts. The interrelationship between the six governing bodies are...
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Robespierre Reexamined
This 7 page paper looks at the life and times of Maximilien Robespierre, the man credited for proliferating the Reign of Terror at the end of the French Revolution. The position of the paper is that Robespierre was not the evil figure some...
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Comparing and Contrasting Maximilien Robespierre and Erich Maria Remarque
A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts the 18th century French political revolutionary and zealot, Maxmilien Robespierre, with controversial 20th century German author and renowned pacifist Erich Maria Remarque. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Two Views on the French Revolution
A 10 page research paper that analyzes two books on the causes of the French Revolution-- Bailey Stone (The Genesis of the French Revolution) and Georges Lefebvre (The Coming of the French Revolution). While these two historians disagree on...
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Ernst Breisach
This 2 page paper provides an overview of the central perspectives of Ernst Breisach in his Historiography: Ancient, Medieval & Modern as they relate to the origins of history. This paper demonstrates the link between the perspectives of the...
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Could the European Monetary Union Collapse?
This 5 page report is based on a recent Fortune article by Paul Krugman entitled,
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Art and Photography
Beginning in the Renaissance and the emergence of linear perspective there has been certain expectations ascribed to art and artists. During the Renaissance, the rendition of the human form was for the first time able to be portrayed with depth and...
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Political Culture, National Identity, & Nationalism
A 9 page research paper that examines the terms political culture, national identity, and nationalism. The writer offers definitions of these terms and then turns to specific examples in various countries to illustrate their interrelationships....
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Friedrich Nietzsche And Sigmund Freud On The Enlightenment
5 pages in length. The Enlightenment was one of the central tasks that the major thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of the manner in which those great philosophers looked...
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The Euro and Its Implications for International Finance
This 12 page report discusses the introduction of the Europe
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Nationalism in Remarque, Kipling, and Treitschke
A 6 page paper arguing that nationalism arises from a widespread sense of, not pride and security, but shame or fear. Works discussed include Kipling
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de Tocqueville, Mill, and Smith on Freedom
An eight page paper looking at these three seminal thinkers and their ideas on freedom. The paper compares and contrasts their views, concluding that de Tocqueville
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French Revolutions 1789 and 1848 Compared
A 7 page research paper on the political and military basis behind these two Revolutions, as well as a discussion of how these Revolutions led to France
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Renaissance Poetry
The Renaissance era produced some of the world's greatest poets. The Renaissance began as a cultural movement in the fifteenth-century. Aligned with the humanist movement, the new style depended on the Greek and Roman rhetoric as examples of...
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The Cold War: Then and Now
This 8 page paper examines the Cold War and looks at how nuclear weapons were viewed. It further delves into the problems with nuclear weapons in the 1990s, particularly as it involves China. Chinagate and the controversy surrounding spies supplying...
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