The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars.

Civil wars may result in large numbers of casualties and the consumption of significant resources.

Civil wars have further resulted in economic collapse ; Burma ( Myanmar ), Uganda and Angola are examples of nations that were considered to have promising futures before being engulfed in civil wars.

Civil wars through the 19th century to early 20th century tended to be short ; the average length of a civil war between 1900 and 1944 was one and half years.

The term English Civil War appears most commonly in the singular form, although historians often divide the conflict into two or three separate wars.

Following the Finnish Civil War and October revolution, Russians were virtually equated with Communists and due to official hostility to Communism, Finno-Soviet relations in the period between the world wars remained tense.

Many developments in first aid and many other medical techniques have been driven by wars, such as in the case of the American Civil War, which prompted Clara Barton to organize the American Red Cross.

Civil wars, decreasing investments in maintenance and acquisition of new scrolls and generally declining interest in non-religious pursuits likely contributed to a reduction in the body of material available in the Library, especially in the fourth century.

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This technique was used in several European wars of the eighteenth century, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War.

The national context ( England and Wales, plus the kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland ) frames the definition of Puritans, but was not a self-identification for those Protestants who saw the progress of the Thirty Years ' War from 1620 as directly bearing on their denomination, and as a continuation of the religious wars of the previous century, carried on by the English Civil Wars.

Jean Bodin, partly in reaction to the chaos of the French wars of religion ; and Thomas Hobbes, partly in reaction to the English Civil War, both presented theories of sovereignty calling for strong central authority in the form of absolute monarchy.

Operations on foreign territory were either territorial wars ( such as the Laos Civil War ) or conflicts mandated by the United Nations.

* Civil wars occurred in many nations.

The British government suspended convertibility ( that is to say, it went off the gold standard ) during the Napoleonic wars and the U. S. government during the US Civil War.

The newly-independent countries were ravaged by brutal civil wars in the following decades – the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ) and Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 )-responsible for millions of deaths and refugees.

In her " capitalism peace theory ," Ayn Rand held that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones and that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history — a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world — from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, with the exceptions of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 ), the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ), and the American Civil War ( 1860-1863 ), which, notably, occurred in perhaps the most liberal economy in the world at the peak of the industrial revolution.

Civil wars in Nigeria and Angola continued unabated for years, and the OAU could do nothing to stop them.

* Bellum Civile ( Civil War ), on the wars between Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus

In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

according to many critics, in fact, the South has led the North in literature since the Civil War, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

Vernon was consummately fond of oysters, and Manning's had been famous for them since the Civil War.

This affected the Angolan Civil War that had been ongoing since Angola's independence in 1975.

The causes of the Civil War were complex, and have been controversial since the war began.

In the United States, however, personally retained counsel have had a right to appear in all federal criminal cases since the adoption of the Constitution and in state cases at least since the end of the Civil War, although nearly all provided this right in their state constitutions or laws much earlier.

* 1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d ' état against Juan Bosch.

Examples of common law being replaced by statute or codified rule in the United States include criminal law ( since 1812, U. S. courts have held that criminal law must be embodied in statute if the public is to have fair notice ), commercial law ( the Uniform Commercial Code in the early 1960s ) and procedure ( the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in the 1930s and the Federal Rules of Evidence in the 1970s ).

Douglass believed that since African American men were fighting in the American Civil War, they deserved the right to vote.

However, since the Civil War Era, the national courts often interpret the federal government as the final judge of its own powers under dual federalism.

The Hong Kong 1 July March is an annual protest rally led by the Civil Human Rights Front since the 1997 handover on the HKSAR establishment day.

This has been a threat to international shipping since the second phase of the Somali Civil War in the early 21st century.

The Soviet Ministry of Defense also helped, since they had experience of dealing with corps of international volunteers during the Russian Civil War.

* 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.

Even his friend Antoine-Jacques Roustan felt impelled to write a polite rebuttal of the chapter on Civil Religion in the Social Contract, which implied that the concept of a Christian Republic was paradoxical since Christianity taught submission rather than participation in public affairs.

Ashcroft received 64 percent of the vote in the general election — the largest landslide for governor in Missouri history since the U. S. Civil War.

Since the end of the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), stability has been widespread in the country, and major reconstruction has been going on since 2002 in those parts of the country which have been damaged by the civil war.

The link south from Makhanga to Mozambique's Beira corridor has been closed since the Mozambique Civil War, with plans for reconstruction not yet realised.

Since Filmer's views essentially require that the Stuart family be uniquely descended from the patriarchs of the Bible, and since even in the late 17th century that was a difficult view to uphold, Locke attacked Filmer's views in his First Treatise on Government, freeing him to set out his own views in the Second Treatise on Civil Government.

Police often have specialist units for handling armed offenders, and similar dangerous situations, and can ( depending on local laws ), in some extreme circumstances, call on the military ( since Military Aid to the Civil Power is a role of many armed forces ).

" Although the 1930s and 1940s and the ensuing neo-orthodox theological consensus mitigated much of the polemics during the mid-20th century, disputes erupted again beginning in the mid-1960s, over the extent of involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and the issue of ordination of women, and, especially since the 1990s, over the issue of ordination of gays and lesbians.

According to the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, the actual de facto desegregation of U. S. public schools peaked in the late 1980s ; since that time, the schools have, in fact, become more segregated mainly due to the ethnic segregation of the nation with whites dominating the suburbs and minorities the urban centers.