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A History of the Modern World
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

Revolution and the Reimposition of Order, 1848-1870

Internet Exercises

Eyewitness accounts

Evaluate these two eyewitness accounts of events in France as historical sources.



Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848lamartine.html)

Link 2
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848johnson.html)

Barricades

Barricades were a universal feature of mid-19th century revolutions. Using descriptions and visual images, describe their role in these upheavals.



Link 1
(http://www.gla.ac.uk/~histtltp/hcc/1848/comments/ruefaua.htm#title)

Link 2
(http://www.gla.ac.uk/~histtltp/hcc/1848/comments/streeta.htm#title)

Link 3
(http://www.gla.ac.uk/~histtltp/hcc/1848/comments/barr2a.htm#title)

Link 4
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/la/1848march.gif)

Link 5
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/la/1848june.gif)

Link 6
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/la/1848barricade.html)

Link 7
(http://www.gla.ac.uk/~histtltp/hcc/1848/comments/womba.htm#title)

Link 8
(http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1852-18brum/18z.gif)

Hungarian Declaration of Independence, 1849

How did the Hungarians justify their revolution?



Link 1
(http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~habsweb/sourcetexts/hungind.html)

Caricature and politics

Evaluate these political cartoons depicting the Prussian king Frederick William IV as political propaganda.



Link 1
(http://zaurak.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/1848/icons/FriedrichWilhelm2.gif)

Link 2
(http://zaurak.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/1848/icons/FriedrichWilhelm2.gif)

The Communist Manifesto

Discuss Marx's and Engels? concepts of class, economic determinism, and the necessity for the abolition of bourgeois private property in The Communist Manifesto.



Link 1
(http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html)

Rebuilding Paris

Using maps, images and the secondary discussion describe the roles of Haussman and Napoleon III in recreating Paris in the image of an empire.



Link 1
(http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/courses/parismaps/images/IMG0072.GIF)

(before)
Link 2
(http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/courses/parismaps/images/IMG0091.GIF)

(after)
Link 3
(http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/new_louvre.html)

Link 4
(http://gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/architecture/fra04073.html)

Link 5
(http://gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/)

Link 6
(http://gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/architecture/Haussman.html)

National songs

How might these Hungarian and German national songs combine romanticism with nationalism?



Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848hungary-natsong.html)

Link 2
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/arndt-vaterland.html)