... comparison to the United States and Germany, where their output was in the ascendancy. The Germans specialised in dyes, drugs and photochemical products, the Americans in electro-chemicals. Britain in soap, paints, coal tar and explosives. Consequently, British investors were unlikely to invest in British companies in direct competition with German or American firms, exacerbating the gap in these areas. The ... productivity improvement in services and light industries , which are underrepresented in the standard indices of industrial output." McCloskey does conclude, however, that scatt...

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... align the interests of the industrialists and landed gentry by creating a move for protectionism that increased the market for Germany's young industry. Germany, after unification, possessed a strong central bank which greatly contrasts the small numerous banks that existed in Britain. The bank worked closely with German industry, in some cases even serving in management for certain large ... progress through industrialization was dramatically different. Germany and France had late starts and could take lessons from Britain. Their geographic situation made them equally prone to invasion....

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... fears with respect to a European Constitution, which of course in one way or the other can only be a more or less federative one. Central states such as France and Great Britain − even Italy and Spain with their 20 respectively 22 regions − shall have harder times to ... sake of brevity at this point and with regard to the experiences during the last 215 years of the American history and the last 12 years in (central-)Eastern European Countries I − a true believer in institutions, I now admit − decide here to further follow the second answer: "Constitutions matter!" ... the unst...

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... to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie ... 1994 when the Prince said during a speech on October 28th, 1994, concerning the disarmament of the army: "the momentous events in Russia, Central Europe and Germany have brought changes for us all in Western Europe, almost all for the better. Here today we draw together one of ... Sta...

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... Bald and the eastern region of the Franconian Empire went to Ludwig the German. Italy with Rome and the original regions of Aachen went to Lothar I, which was basically the central part of the empire which was known as bowling alley, and the title of Kaiser. Despite this division of land among three brothers, ideally and nominally, harmony of the Empire ... 's old empire but still, his fifty-year time in power was well known and remembered in the European history as the period of outstanding political alliance and cultural creativeness in central part of the Europe . By emphasizing the m...

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... Unification of Germany, he attempted to eliminate the influence of Catholic Church, as he feared it divide Germany. Yet the Catholics represented approximately one third of the country the Catholic Central Party in Germany was represented 58 seats in the lower house of the Reichstag by March 1871. Therefore Bismarck allied with the National Liberals -who also vehemently opposed the doctrine ... free trade and the establishment of protective tariffs. However he needed majority to pass this bill and the liberals were not the strongest party in the Reichstag anymore, the conservative Centr...

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... years earlier, and he consciously followed this plan throughout his twelve years in power. The structuralists counter this by arguing from several angles that Hitler was an unprincipled optimist with a central concern in "propaganda exploitation and the protection of his own prestige." (1) That he was subject to pressures from elite groups and therefore not a free agent able to follow any clear ... , Italy, and Japan and would therefore need the fleet only for continental purposes. (6) Hitler had explained to the military's top brass, only four days after coming to power, what the centra...

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... to $33 billion dollars. Also, new countries were formed and these countries were "Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungry, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. These countries were carved out of the homelands of the defeated central powers" (Mack 667). The Germans did eventually sign the treaty, but they thought it was unfair to them. Then the Great Depression came along and the countries that the Germans ... classroom and to teach the next generation of Germans democratic ideas. Their judicial system would be set up in a democratic style. Also, local self-government will be restored and no central governme...

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... and the industrial areas of the Ruhr. In spite of the national tensions, however, eastern Germany remained peaceful. Many Germans, mainly in the towns, disliked the Germanization policy of the central government in Berlin, and many Poles remained lukewarm toward Polish nationalism. The Jews in Germany, about one percent of the population, can hardly be considered a national minority, as the great ... ...

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... empire, with a reach extending across a series of Pacific islands far beyond its base. At the time of the Yalta Conference, the American armies in the Pacific were nowhere near assaulting central Japan, though the military course of the war was tipped in their favor. The prospect of a war being fought all the way to Japan promised to impose unprecedented numbers of ... ...

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... group and the individual can shed light into why persons acted in certain manners. Comparative Analysis Having seen the authors" stands on the issue, their respective definitions of resistance are a central issue of the discussion between the scholars. Bauer clearly states her meaning of resistance "as any group action consciously taken in opposition to known or surmised laws, actions, or intentions ... ...

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... by the Reich Chancellor."" Essentially, by demolishing Germany's traditional federal-type state by abolishing the separate powers within the state, Hitler and the Nazi party unified the country. However, the central authority in this newly designed Reich was Hitler and his party. The law, which over saw this transformation, was called the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich. It was ... ...

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... artistic goals. Beethoven composed 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, and various chamber works for the piano. He was responsible for developing the sonata into a grander form. The piano was the central position of his art, and his 32 sonatas have been called the New Testament of piano music. In his sonatas there are often dynamic contrasts, explosive accents, oppositions of low ... ...

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... not obsolete. The nature of the conflict also changed over the passing of time, changing from what was primarily a selfish war, fought by Britain against the growing ascendancy of the Central powers as a whole, and Germany especially, whom, by the eve of the war, were challenging Britain on virtually every front except finance, to the prevention of global domination by a single ... ...

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... . Ideas soon became very pressured and unoriginal compared to the vibrant thought existing in both Britain and America. This corruption and loss of advancements could have been prevented if one central government had been tolerant of scientists and their thought. Scientists also greatly suffered from Germany's system of communication. The main support system for scientists and their intellectual life depended on ... ...

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... Britain and France backed the invaded countries, thus starting a new World War. Between Wars (WW I and WW II) Twenty-one years before World War II began World War I ended. The Central Powers lost against the Allies and were severely punished. Germany alone was in debt for 33 billion dollars. In total, 10 million soldiers and civilians were lost their lives in ... ...

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... that the literature of reform is widespread, the peasantry remains largely illiterate. Churches, devoid of visual aids become an abstraction to the illiterate. The spoken words of the preacher become central to the church liturgy. During the Reformation national languages and literature were greatly advanced by the wide dissemination of religious literature written in the languages of the people, rather than ... ...

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... 's, as the Prussian King refused to implement Germany's claim on this province. This ultimately highlighted the lack of strong, united leadership within the German Confederation. Although this conflict was not central to the German revolution, the Lombardy-Venetia conflict was, as these two regions were crucial to the unification for Italy. The Italian's at first were successful in expelling the Habsburg ... ...

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... as large as it did. By 1914 Europe had been divided into two power blocs. There was the triple alliance consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, also called the central powers and the triple entente consisting of Britain, France and Russia. Originally there was no such bloc. Under Bismarck Germany had successfully isolated France diplomatically this protected Germany from encirclement ... ...

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... replaced by governors responsible to Hitler. Ultimately, in January 1934, the process of centralising political power was completed when all state assemblies were eradicated and their powers relocated to the central government. Hitler's use of the masterly notion of "Brutality impresses" was depicted in the "Night of the Long Knives" on 30 June 1934, where the murders of people who posed ... ...

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... , the existing Weimar government, put in place by the victorious allies, was blamed (John). Throughout the depression the government became more and more disliked since it was indecisive and no central power, but is not where Hitler entered the picture. Hitler came into the scene much earlier. Adolf Hitler joined the committee of the German Workers' Party in 1919 and by ... ...

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... . One reviewer has stated that one of Fassbinder's greatest abilities is to call into question everything that the society in the film (and the audience too) accepted and believed in' . Central to this film is the way that he contrasts and contradicts one scene with the next, in order to make the spectator question what he has just accepted. Let us ... ...

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