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Perryville Vs. Gettysburg, Madison Rippy
Perryville Vs. Gettysburg, Madison Rippy
The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication
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The Committee Of Union And Progress And World War I, Ella Shipp
The Committee Of Union And Progress And World War I, Ella Shipp
The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication
The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which was born out of the Young Turks (founded in 1889), had the stated goal of restoring the 1876 Constitution and Parliament, and was inspired by Young Ottomans such as Namik Kemal.1 However, the group also had a strong streak of nationalism and Social Darwinism influenced by strands of European thought. It became increasingly dominated by rigid thinking and unexperienced young officers who ultimately formed a triumvirate and brought the Ottoman Empire into WWI on the side of the Germans. (first paragraph)
Rivers Of Blood And Money: The Herero Genocide In German Southwest Africa, Thomas Burden
Rivers Of Blood And Money: The Herero Genocide In German Southwest Africa, Thomas Burden
The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication
The history of African colonialism is filled with stories of atrocity perpetrated under the guise of cultural or racial superiority. The death of 32,000 civilians in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and the horrors perpetrated in the Belgian Congo are only two examples of the effects of European imperialism in Africa.1 When the Herero people rebelled against the German colonial government in 1904, the Schutztruppe and colonial officials responded with a brutality that mirrored their fellow European colonizers.2 However, unlike the other European powers, Imperial Germany cast their conflict with the Herero in terms of a racial …