He was born in 1871 in New Jersey. He studied in the Universities of Lafayette and Siracuse. In 1890 he moved to NY to work as a reporter in the poorest suburbs, a work that together with his poverty would supply him with material for...
He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachussets. He was a descendant of a long line of puritan rulers. As a child, he heard many different stories from this puritan past. One of his forefathers was the one that prosecuted the famous witches of Salem,...
The British tried to colonize America twice in the 16th century, but they only succeeded in 1607, when they founded Jamestown. However by general agreement, the Pilgrim Fathers who travelled on the Mayflower were to be the first settlers; they founded Plymouth...
England had resisted the ideological armies of revolutionary France for 20 years, but doing so she had entered a process of transformation. Outwardly, the world of politics looked resistant to change. Burke´s proposal to establish a real parlamentary system, hadn´t...
The term Industrial Revolution is commonly used to denote the changes in the organisation of production that mark the passage from a rural handicraft barter economy to an urban industrial wage-earning economy. Although many countries have undergone this...
The romantic period appeared first in Germany, then in England, and later spread throughout the continent. The two most relevant historical facts influencing the birth and development of the movement are the French revolution, and the Industrial revolution...
Romanticism is an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated around the middle of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic, social, and political norms of...
British colonialism in the 17 C had obeyed a desire to expand British commerce. The British government did not exert a direct control on their colonies. The Chartered Companies, especially the East India, levant and Hudson´s Bay, were the ones to carry about...
Conrad was born in Poland, son of a polish noble. He inherited his love for literature from his father. His father died when he was twelve. When he was 16 he abandoned Poland, occupied by the Russians, and went to Marseille. During the following 4...
He was born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay (India) and 6 years old he was sent to study in England. He returned to India in 1882. From that time worked for the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore as an editor and writer of...