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By 1871 Italy had come into being as a legally unified country. Disparate states and kingdoms were brought together under one unified legislative and executive body. This question examines the extent to w...

Historian Justin du Rivage’s view that economic grievances were the main factor in bringing about the Revolution is the most compelling. Rivage argues that whether or not colonists wished to revolt “turne...

A failure or lack of cohesive and organised leadership of the Chartist movement during the years 1839 to 1849 has often been cited as one of the main reasons that Chartism failed. The movement was made u...

The South profited primarily from agriculture, such as from crops like tobacco and cotton, and resultantly the majority did not want industrialisation to occur. On the other hand, the North had a flourish...

One reason for the French exit in 1954 was the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in spring 1954. This is because the battle highlighted how weak colonial French control had become; it was a Viet Minh victory, mostl...