Michael Madill, Ph.D.

Britain, like every other country, had some things about it which made its industrialization somewhat different. However, the Industrial Revolution was a global phenomenon; it wasn't the sum of the...

You could say that the Protestant Reformation made European expansion to the Americas possible, if by that you mean expansion by English and Dutch adventurers in North America. Recall that the...

There wasn't one specific thing that caused the shift from manufacturing to service-oriented employment in the United States in the late twentieth century, which some people call...

There are at least two good reasons why the entrance of the United States into the First World War helped turn its tide against the Central powers. The first is basic accounting. The United States...

What's the most important part of the Declaration of the Rights of Man? You could argue about this forever, because the articles are supposed to be an all-or-nothing proposition. The Declaration is...

Metropolitan and peripheral theories about Britain's involvement in the Scramble for Africa don't really compete with one another, as your question suggests. In fact, peripheral theories attempt to...

The best way to get started on your assignment is to just start reading and writing. There's a method to this, so stick with me. Just read the required pro- and anti-slavery texts. Then, answer the...

Tony Kushner challenges traditional understandings of gender in his play Angels in America by casting the same actors in multiple major and minor roles. The most common staging is to cast eight...

In order to understand examples of the ecstasies in Martin Heidegger’s book, Being and Time, you should keep in mind three things. First, you can only truly be in the present. Being has no other...

Immigration has affected the population and the politics of the United States in many ways. Here are three. First, immigration has made the population and the politics of the US more diverse. In...

There were many outcomes of the American Revolution. The immediate result was the achievement of independence from Great Britain for the colonies. Longer-term effects include the creation of the...

Prince Escalus has two important roles in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. First, he's the lawgiver of Verona. It's his job to mediate the dispute between the Montagues and the Capulets, to...

Zora Neale Hurston’s book Barracoon remained unpublished for nearly a century for two reasons. First, publishers thought it would be too hard for the average person to read. Second, it raised...

Unrest among the peasantry of France in the late 1700s, which culminated in the French Revolution that began in 1789, was due to a lot more than the trickle-down effects of the country's financial...

It's important for Winston to write down his experience of the Two Minutes Hate, because that makes it real. A subtext of the novel is that what's written down is real. Winston keeps a diary so...