enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Great man theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory

    Napoleon, a typical great man, said to have created the "Napoleonic" era through his military and political genius. The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes: highly influential and unique individuals who, due to their natural attributes, such as superior ...

  3. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment

    Such an environment was especially intimidating to monarchs who derived much of their power from the disparity between classes of people. If the different classes joined together under the influence of Enlightenment thinking, they might recognize the all-encompassing oppression and abuses of their monarchs and because of the numbers of their ...

  4. Social history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_history

    Social history, often called "history from below", is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are called social historians. Historians who write social history are called social historians.

  5. Strauss–Howe generational theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational...

    People are looking for a new way to connect themselves to the larger story of America. That is the problem. We've felt adrift over the past 10 years, and we think that the way history has been presented over the past couple of decades has been more in terms of the little pieces and people are not as interested in the little pieces now.

  6. Political history of the world - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_history_of_the_world

    The political history of the world is the history of the various political entities created by the human race throughout their existence and the way these states define their borders. Throughout history , political systems have expanded from basic systems of self-governance and monarchy to the complex democratic and totalitarian systems that ...

  7. 30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than ...

    www.aol.com/event-history-grislier-grosser-think...

    Image credits: HippoSame8477 #4. The atrocities carried out by the Imperial Army before and during WW2. Truly horrific, inhumane s**t. Yes, Americans, the Russians, and the British did some ...

  8. Roman historiography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_historiography

    As the recording of Roman history began to evolve and take shape, many characteristics came to define what we know today as Roman historiography, most notably the strong defense of and allegiance to the Roman state and its wide variety of moral ideals, the factional nature of some histories, the splitting of historiography into two distinct ...

  9. Historicism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism

    David Summers, building on the work of E. H. Gombrich, defines historicism negatively, writing that it posits "that laws of history are formulatable and that in general the outcome of history is predictable," adding "the idea that history is a universal matrix prior to events, which are simply placed in order within that matrix by the historian ...