... of Imperial expansion, but it is short-sighted to simply label him as an Imperial propagandist or apologist. Two of his most oft-condemned poems, Recessional and The White Man's Burden, actually were used by both sides of the colonial issue at the time.1 A reading of Recessional, ... the way it treated those soldiers. Kipling published Barrack-Room Ballads in 1890, and it immediately gained him great success in England. A collection of poems written in the voice of a London cockney, they display Kipling's remarkable breadth of understanding of soldiers and soldiering during the Victorian...

• Word Count: 4292
• Approx Pages: 17
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• Grade Level: High School

... pushed through the territory to the copper mines of Katanga by 1910 and a lead and zinc mine had opened up at Kabwe, formerly known as Broken Hill. In the late 1920's, however, vast deposits of copper ore were discovered on the Katangan border and by 1940 the mines employed 30,000 ... elected to the legislative Council. In 1938, when Gore-Browne became the nominated member to represent the interests of the Africans, his seat at Broken Hill was taken over by Roy Welensky, a locomotive engine driver and railway union official who had grown up in Southern Rhodesia. The settlers started ... r...

• Word Count: 8649
• Approx Pages: 35
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... British arrived, they ruled most of northern India save for a few fiefdoms still controlled by tribute-paying Hindu rajas. Though ruthless, the Moguls had cultivated tastes, especially for Persianstyle gardens, poems and miniatures. The young emperor Jahangir, for example, boasted of slaughtering 17,000 animals and nearly 14,000 birds, yet he was a great patron of the arts. His successor, Shah ... ...

• Word Count: 5127
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... making successive concessions to the Japanese in order to grasp onto some form of remaining sovereignty, albeit weak, the hold onto Indochina was almost impossible. By 1945, French authority was broken, and appointment of a nationalist government was approved, encouraged by the Japanese. The nationalist power that was strong in Indochina meant any French return was an inevitable conflict.3 Considering that Indochina ... ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... to use to drive England to its knees no matter how much it cost France. At the end of the day though, no one but Napoleon wanted to pay for a broken blockade. Another factor that hurt Napoleon was the people in his Empire. The best way to summarize Napoleon's Empire's feelings toward him around the end of his reign in 1814 ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... superior force and numbers. They had to engage in a different style of warfare, and they discovered that the human quest for freedom is a powerful motivator, one that can only be broken by persistent removal of the freedoms themselves. The British were able to gain superiority and eventually win the Boer War by utilizing the combination of brute force, vastly superior numbers ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Roosevelt and Churchill had signed during the war. It stated that occupants in the country had the right to vote for the country's government. The British and the French had broken the rules of the charter. But they had an excuse, which was that a colony wasn't part of the charter. Kenya also knew that the two superpowers, USA and USSR didn ... ...

• Word Count: 2624
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• Grade Level: High School