The Fourteen Points were a masterful piece of political propaganda, but Wilson was less successful at translating them into reality. Why?
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Who said that the development of insurance converted "from a matter of convenience into one of urgency"?
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Which countries were most successful in building viable nation-states? What accounts for the variation?
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Name of the Radical groups in England in the 1650s who called for the abolition of private ownership and extension of the franchise.
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Name of the Theory that the monarch is supreme and can exercise full and complete power unilaterally.
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What were the problems caused by the need of cooperation between the Metropolitan police, the City of London police and Scotland Yard in London 1800s?
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It has been argued that there is no single Holocaust, that the experience was different in different times and places?
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Give some examples of fourteenth-century vernacular literature and compare them to the vernacular literature of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
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How did Nazi officials harness the power of consumer culture for their own political ends during the 1930s and 1940s?
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How are Kipling's imperial subjects characterized? What were the civil and military aspects of the "white man's burden"?
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Do you think that the rebellions after the Protestant Reformation (such as the German Peasants Rebellion or the take-over of Munster).
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In the sixteenth century the Anabaptists were the only important religious denomination in Europe to encourage independence
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What contribution did Einstein make to the atomic hypothesis? What did he do, and what impact did it have? How does his approach fit with his view of scientific
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What was the ancient Greek concept of "atom"? How did Dalton apply it to the new chemistry that was emerging in his day?
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Describe some key episodes in the history of the "energy" concept: consider especially the origin of the concept, as well as contemporary cosmological.
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How did Carnot's analogy between and engine and the waterwheel advance thermodynamics?
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What work did Newton draw from, and what did he unify? How did he lay the foundation for some of the concepts that came later?
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What kinds of motivations were important to Copernicus in overturning the Ptolemaic system? In what ways was Kepler similar to Copernicus
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What was the status of mathematics in the Greek conception of science? In what ways has the Greek conception been preserved, and in what ways has it changed?
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Did Catholicism mainly benefit from "grassroots" beliefs and practices or because of official responses to the challenges of the Reformation
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