Category: History Topics
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The Enigmatic Neanderthal
The changing face of human evolution In the last few decades, we have seen a huge amount of migration throughout the world as individuals look to take up opportunities to be closer to families or look for new career prospects. The cost of travel has seen the major tourist destinations of the world become bulging…
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Some Thoughts on Destruction: not just cancel culture
Today, when we think of the phrase, destroying someone’s life, it is easy to equate this to the countless cases in the media of individuals being the victims of online bullying. Social media has allowed our opinions, pictures, comments and acquaintances to become topics of those that may have different opinions or look different to…
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The Messinian Salinity Crisis
The event that changed our oceans The Mediterranean Sea and its surrounds are a fascinating part of the world. Not only for their place in human civilization and its development but also for the continued use as a transport route, holiday destination, seafood resource and its economic contribution to those countries that share its shoreline.…
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How Totalitarian was Stalin
We should never forget the lessons that history teaches us When we look at ourselves in Western societies, it is easy to complain and compare the things we may or may not have. Our system of democracy allows free speech, fair elections and politicians, that if we do not like, are replaced for ones we…
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Why Create an Empire?
A path to economic growth ‘Take up the White Man’s burden, send forth the best ye breedGo send your sons to exile, to serve your captives’ needTo wait in heavy harness, on fluttered folk and wildYour new-caught, sullen peoples, half devil and half child.’ Rudyard Kipling. Why would a nation state want to invest its…
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The European Colonization of the Middle East
Was it for ideological or geopolitical reasons The decline of the Ottoman Empire has been attributed to several different factors. Some of these include a growing debt to Western European Empires and increased nationalism within the Empire that led to failed restructuring. These factors opened the door for the Great Empires to exploit the resources…
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Was the Soviet Union a Legacy of the Russian Imperial System
Exchanging one tyranny for another February 1917 and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II saw the end of the Romanov dynasty in Russia that had ruled for over 300 years. The Empire now had an opportunity to move to a new style of government. The adoption of the communist model and the creation of a…
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European Entry in to the Middle East
A short essay on the factors that led it By the turn of the 19th century, the Ottoman empire was already facing a decline through growing nationalism and loss of territories, as well as other factors. To add further pressure to the empire, the growing imperial aspirations of other European states was increasing as they…
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Female Crime: Gendering of the ‘Jailbirds’
A look at Australian judicial practices towards females Female criminality has been a topic of research, novels, stories and movies for hundreds of years. You only need to explore the Bible to read how Eve was portrayed as a seductress that led Adam (man) in to temptation. With a story such as this laying the…
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Did post-colonial Africa benefit from the altering global hegemony of the Cold War?
‘When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers’ — African proverb Just as the end of First World War heralded in change in the geopolitical landscape with the end of many colonial empires, so too did the end of the Second World War as European nations reassessed their position as a colonial power in foreign…
Warren Coppard 