This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the …

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history … history. A broad selection of historical writing is discussed, ranging from the work of Francis Bacon and William Camden in … followed it, to the eighteenth-century's major account of British history: David Hume's History of England. Particular …

emergence of a socio-economic system dominated by the Church is presented as a crucial development in the history of western … Europe …