... also contributed to the popularity of mathematics, science and related subjects, moving away from religious sentiment and into the Modern Era. In the Early Modern Era, The Scientific Revolution changed the way individuals viewed themselves and the world around them. The Modern phase of globalisation was between 1800 and 1950 and saw a progressive age very different to ... spread throughout Europe, with the first major wave beginning in France in 1789. The French Revolution lasted until 1815, when the European conservative order re-established itself. The French Revolution was an influent...

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... imperialist enemy, meaning the legitimacy of the allied empires can be no longer. To truly see this emergence of nationalism, the study of the French Empire is vital and could be a contributing explanation to the collapse of the European Empires. Only second behind Britain, this Empire was still at ... its greatest extent by 1945 but, by 1962 it had lost all its major territories with nationalism emerging throughout this period. The French Union (the new name for the Empire) of 1946 is a clear example of desperation to keep the Empire together with its indissoluble unity.1 The ... was l...

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... concerns upon which all were in agreement for the new Europe focused on three main areas, the restoration and conservation of the European balance of power, the prevention of further French aggression and expansion and most importantly, a period of peace in Europe to allow economic development and the commercial growth of trade between the European powers. As the great powers exerted ... in the 19th century can be viewed as more of a worldwide expansion of empire. Russia on the other hand was slow to benefit from the technological discoveries of the industrial revolution; their economy ...

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... against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that informed their reports to Washington," (Bradley 94). Through these sources, the Americans could reaffirm what they had already wanted to believe ... about the Vietnamese people – that they were an "inferior and imitative little China [with] backwards political development...[lacking] traditions of indigenous governance," with French rule being an insult to that i...

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