A History of the Modern World, 9/e

R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Reaction versus Progress, 1815-1848

Internet Exercises

The debate on child labor Reading Dale, Althorp, Ure and Greg, what were arguments for and against child labor in factories?
Link 1 (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TEXdale.htm)



Link 2 (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRalthorp.htm)



Link 3 (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRure.htm)



Link 4 (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TEXgregR.htm)

Growth of railways

Using the statistics for the spread of railways in the 10 European countries between 1840 and 1900, what inferences would you draw?

Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrev6.html)

Romanticisms How do the four paintings and Coleridge's poem exemplify the ideals of Romanticism?
Link 1 (http://history.hanover.edu/courses/art/111rom.html)



Link 2 (http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/coleridge.html)

Public opinion

Use the text and the four caricatures to discuss the relationship between public opinion, diplomacy and nationalism in early 19th century Europe

Link 1
(http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2910/e972.htm)

Music and nationalism

How do musical developments reveal the spread of nationalism in 19th century Europe?

Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/NATMUSIC.html)

Reform

The Political House that Jack Built is a famous political cartoon of the post-1815 era. How does it reveal a desire for political reform?

Link 1
(http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/jack.htm)

Diplomacy How was might the Monroe doctrine have been a "counterblast" to the protocol of Troppau (see page 508).
Link 1 (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/monroe.htm)



Link 2 (http://www.dickinson.edu/~rhyne/232/Three/Troppau_Protocol.html)

German nationalism

How does Fichte use history in understanding the idea of Germany? What alternative ideals of German nationalism does he challenge?

Link 1
(http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/firstyear/Share/shareE13.html)

Capital and labor Use different types of primary sources to discuss competing working-class and middle-class images of Chartism.
Link 1 (http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/peel/chart2.htm)



Link 2 (http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/peel/chatopic.htm)



Link 3 (http://www.gla.ac.uk/~histtltp/hcc/1848/comments/puncha.htm#title)



Link 4 (http://www.gla.ac.uk/~histtltp/hcc/1848/comments/procesa.htm#title)



Link 5 (http://www.gla.ac.uk/~histtltp/hcc/1848/comments/kenninga.htm#title)

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