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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
The Consolidation of Large Nation-States, 1859-1871

Internet Exercises

Florence Nightengale and the Crimean War

Use information from the web sites to answer the following question: "In spite of the fact that Britain in the 1850s was the world's most advanced industrial society, what did the Crimean War reveal about social and health care realities?



Link 1
(http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REnightingale.htm)

Link 2
(http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/)

Link 3
(http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/nightingale/?once=true&)

Young Italy

In Mazzini's thought, how did liberalism and nationalism intersect?



Link 1
(http://history.hanover.edu/texts/mazzini/mazzini5.htm)

German public opinion

Interpret the 1899 opinion poll in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung.



Link 1
(http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/poll.html)

Austria's Ausgleich

According to von Beust, what were the two problems facing Austria? How was the Ausgleich a solution to both problems?



Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1867beust.html)

Russia's Destiny

According to Ukhtomskii, what was Russia's imperial destiny, and how was this related to Russian nationalism?



Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1891ukhtomskii.html)

Resistance to slavery

How were Frederick Douglass and Nat Turner differently motivated to resist slavery?



Link 1
(http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/31.htm)

Link 2
(http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/32.htm)

Ending Russian serfdom and American slavery

Compare and contrast the Russian Emancipation Manifesto (1861) and the American Emancipation Proclamation (1862).



Link 1
(http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/emancipa.htm)

Link 2
(http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/emancipn.html)

Religion and Society in Canada

Using texts from the web site, suggest the role religion played in shaping 19th-century Canadian society.



Link 1
(http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~hrollman/index.html)

Japanese images of Americans

Using these images of Americans drawn by Japanese artists in the 1850s-60s, did the Japanese see these outsiders as normal human beings or demonic barbarians?



Link 1
(http://www.us-japan.org/jsnc/virtualjapan/images/bss/perry2.JPG)

(Commodore Perry and Captain Matthews)
Link 2
(http://www.us-japan.org/jsnc/virtualjapan/images/bss/survey2.JPG)

(surveyors)
Link 3
(http://www.us-japan.org/jsnc/virtualjapan/images/bss/artist2.JPG)

(William Heine, the official artist of the Perry Expedition)
Link 4
(http://www.us-japan.org/jsnc/virtualjapan/images/bss/foliage2.JPG)

(agriculturalist Dr. James Morrow)
Link 5
(http://www.us-japan.org/jsnc/virtualjapan/images/bss/dancers2.JPG)

(2 sailors, dancing)
Link 6
(http://ddb.libnet.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/library/ishin/shouin/image/big/0707066.jpg)

(an alien, 1863)








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