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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

European Civilization, 1871-1914: Society and Culture

Internet Exercises

Marxian socialism

Use some of these texts to define the Marxian version of socialism as this took form in the late 19th century.



Link 1
(http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864iwma/index.htm)

Link 2
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/marx-summary.html)

Social democracy

Compare the Russian, German and French forms of social democracy c. 1900.



Link 1
(http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/sdprog.html)

Link 2
(http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111gotha.html)

Link 3
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1891erfurt.html)

Link 4
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1903millerand.html)

Link 5
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1905frenchsoc.html)

Suffragettes and anti-suffragettes

Outline the arguments for and against votes for women as these were carried out visually.



Link 1
(http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/person/DHart/Images/ModernEurope/Feminism/SuffragePostcards19... )

Link 2
(http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/person/DHart/Images/ModernEurope/Feminism/Procession1910.JPG)

Link 3
(http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/person/DHart/Images/ModernEurope/Feminism/ConvictsLunatics.JPG)

Link 4
(http://www.artehistoria.com/historia/jpg/REC12798.jpg)

Link 5
(http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/suffrage/images/bugler.htm#title)

Link 6
(http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/suffrage/images/factacts.htm#title)

Link 7
(http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/suffrage/images/votework.htm#title)

Link 8
(http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/person/DHart/Images/ModernEurope/Feminism/AntiSuffrageCartoon... )

Link 9
(http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/person/DHart/Images/ModernEurope/Feminism/AntiSuffrageCartoon... )

Link 10
(http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/person/DHart/Images/ModernEurope/Feminism/SuffragettesHome191... )

Evolution versus creation

Examine two web sites that approach the creation/evolution controversy from evolutionary and anti-evolutionary perspectives.



Link 1
(http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/other-links.html#evolution)

Link 2
(http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/other-links.html#creationism)

First Impressions

Imagine you a reporter in 1874 assigned to attend the First Impressionist Exhibition, which was held in that year. Write a review for your newspaper.



Link 1
(http://www.artchive.com/74nadar.htm)

Nietzsche, "Good and Evil"

Try to outline and then evaluate Nietzsche's attempt to create a secular morality.



Link 1
(http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/History/teaching/sem16/good-bad.html)

Modernists and fundamentalists

Use these sources, liberal and conservative, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic, to understand the modernist-fundamentalist controversy.



Link 1
(http://www.kheper.auz.com/topics/Kabbalah/Baal_Shem_Tov.htm)

Link 2
(http://www.spurgeon.org/spsrmns.htm)

Link 3
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1910oathvmodernism.html)

Link 4
(http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/religion/essays.html)

Link 5
(http://www.island-of-freedom.com/SCHLEIER.HTM)

Waning of classical liberalism

Use these documents to characterize the shift from classical to modern liberalism, and the connection between the latter and the ideals of socialism.



Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1885chamberlain.html)

Link 2
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1913blease.html)

Link 3
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1911hobhouse.html)