While few would doubt that in the period between the 1798 Irish rebellion and the lifting of the Corn Laws Britain’s relationship with Ireland changed dramatically, it seems clear that such changes in policy resulted less from the initiative of such governments than in response to agitation and pressure from the Irish themselves. What was [...]
…Jon Ston, you’re forgetting that Hitler, upon gaining power and forcing through the Enabling Act granting him ‘emergency powers’ as a dictator, never really did so with anything more than a slim popular mandate. His rise had just as much to do with backstage intrigue and underhanded deals as with political support. Consequently, whilst controlling [...]
Regarded by historian Carl Degler as a “revolution” in which “The American people…abandoned, once and for all, the doctrine of laissez faire”[1], the extent to which the New Deal constituted a change, rather than an attempt to protect America’s pre-1929 values from the pressures of the Depression has long been a source of historical controversy.
Considering [...]
The Republican’s free-market approach to economics was a double edged sword. The almost zealous refusal of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, and their Congress to intervene in the affairs of business undoubtedly provided innovators and entrepreneurs such as Henry Ford with the legal and regulatory ‘space’ necessary to expand and adapt throughout the decade at a [...]
The soldiers went out to war that day
to fight
to die.
they say boys became men that day
their boots full of mud
the stench of blood in the air
the machinery of death grinding into gear
their hearts drunk on tales of glory,
their minds drowning on a sea of fear
according to some these men were the greatest
the best this land [...]
