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A Reevaluation of the Impact of the Hundred Years War On The Rural Economy and Society of England
No full textMost scholars have argued that the Hundred Years War negatively impacted the economy and society of England. They have focused primarily on four aspects of the war: the burden of taxation on the English populace, the effects of purveyance on rural society, the effect of recruitment on the labour force of England and the costs of supporting military expeditions. However, in each case the actual degree of impact can be called into question or offset by appealing to other scholarship, or by drawing attention to related positive benefits that are too often overlooked. Beyond this, one must also consider the benefits of war in the form of new industry and the influx of money from high wages, rewards, ransoms, and the spoils of war.
This paper seeks to examine both the positive and negative impacts of the Hundred Years War on the rural society and economy of England and to demonstrate that the overall impact of the war was not as negative as the majority of historians have previously maintained
Parliamentary Speeches of the Din de Siecle German Political Antisemites
No full textHistorians have used materialist and idealist arguments to attempt to explain the nature of antisemitism in Imperial Germany. An analysis of parliamentary debates from 1887 to 1898 shows antisemitic politicians\u27 concerns reflected those of agrarian populists in other countries, such as the United States. This argues against German particularism as an explanation for Imperial antisemitism, and further suggests that the politicians\u27 specifically anti-Jewish aims were secondary to their Mittelstand economic
interests
Progressive Paternalism: Civic Indentity Construction in Red Vienna
No full textMuch of the extant literature assessing the Austrian Socialist Party\u27s (SDAP) social welfare programs in post-First World War Vienna tends to interpret these as the product of a paternalistic and conservative \u27Germanophile\u27 party. Many scholars claim the Socialists suppressed spontaneous working-class political activism, dulling the consciousness of soldiers and workers to the imminent danger to the Republic posed by Austrian fascists. This essay instead proposes that there was a more complex relationship between the SDAP elite and its rank and file than has previously been thought. In attempting to engineer a new socialist society, the party combined progressive and traditional aspects in its welfare programs in an effort to both control and strengthen proletarian political consciousness. The ambiguous results of this program belie claims that the Viennese working class was supine either in the face of the SDAP\u27s \u27cultural offensive\u27 or the right-wing reaction
Sic Semper Fidelis and Tempus Fugit: American Military Nationalism and the European Theatre of the Second World War
No full textDonald S. Moore. Suffering for Territory: Race, Place and Power in Zimbabwe (Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2005).
No full textThe Enduring Marginalization of Women’s Studies in Academia: A Case Study of Simon Fraser University, 1968-2008
No full textThis paper examines the formation of the Women’s Studies Department at Simon Fraser University. While the struggle to establish this, the first credit Women’s Studies program in Canada, was a significant part of the second wave women’s movement and a crucial step towards achieving the broader goal of reinserting women back into academic discourse, in many disciplines the study of women continues to remain peripheral to “traditional” areas of inquiry. This paper will argue that although the establishment of the Women’s Studies department was a monumental achievement for women at the time and has undoubtedly greatly improved the status of women’s voices within academic research, it is not enough. What is required now is the incorporation of these voices into the mainstream disciplines; the ideal being an academic world that fully reflects the pluralistic society in which we live
