... the national elections due to take place in February(Spanish). This included the Socialist Party (PSOE), Communist Party ( PCE), Esquerra Party and the Republican Union Party(Fraser). The Popular Front, as the coalition became known, advocated the restoration of Catalan autonomy, amnesty for political prisoners, agrarian reform, an end to political blacklists and the payment of damages for property owners ... conservative Niceto Alcala Zamora was ousted as president and replaced by the left-wing Manuel Azaña. Soon afterwards Spanish Army officers began plotting to overthrow the Popular...

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... example, the basic structure of Eastern medicine is built on the idea of Qi, or vital energy. Chinese medicine helps to balance this Qi, and thus heal the patient. Many Western doctors and scientist dismiss the idea of Qi as metaphysical nonsense, maintaining that the use of massage, acupuncture, herbs, and meditation must have some other ... Western explantion. This means that although the evidence surrounding Chinese medicine may be perfectly valid, the bias on the part of Western scientists leads them to dismiss this evidence while an objective researcher would look at all evidence w...

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... a political crisis that not only paralyzed the nation but almost overthrew the de Gaulle government.1968 was a year of social revolt that saw the culmination of student protests throughout the western society. As the tradition of socialist idea since French revolution in 1789, the wave of students protest of the 60s Left was partly originated from France. Beginning as a student protest ... service industries, the communication, and culture industries----- the whole sphere of social reproduction. In a very brief time, three times more workers were on strike in France than during the Popu...

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... the case of France, it was a punctuated process with achievements followed by set backs, resulting in a long and drawn out process lasting more than a century. Britain and France are both western European states that, prior to industrialization, were rural agrarian economies, with neither state more urbanized than the other. While Britain's coal reserves were less slender than France, both states had ... based economy they have pursued. Service based economies traditionally comes with lower wages at least for the onset, but is helping Britain shake its title as the sick man of Western E...

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During the colonial era, much of Europe was focused on the idea of Imperialism. In addition, Imperialism was centered on the top two empires from Western Europe: Great Britain and France. Britain and France generally had the same principles when dealing with their respective colonies. The colonies served as a great expansion to both the countries, providing ... became a racist rat hunt, ratonnades, for the French to slaughter many Algerians that demanded equal rights for Muslim population. Eventually, the ambivalent acts of France gave rise to the "the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), wh...

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... the barring of women from meaningful participation in society. As the eighteenth century progressed, the debate over a woman's proper place in society grew intense, not just in Britain, but throughout Western Europe and North America. In all of these locations, women were excluded from the political arena and held no political rights. Through the legal contract of marriage, women were under ... of an Empire, the growth of a British national identity continued unabated. After the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Britain established itself as the foremost European power. But on the home front,...

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