McGraw-Hill OnlineMcGraw-Hill Higher EducationLearning Center
Student Center | Instructor Center | Information Center | Home
Study Skills Primer
Learning Objectives
Chapter Outline
Chapter Overview
Internet Exercises
Interactive Chronologies
Feedback
Help Center


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 Establishment of West-European Leadership

Internet Exercises

Rise and Fall of French Absolutism

What did you learn from the images and descriptions about how image-makers "made" the Sun King?



Link 1
(http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/bnf0005.html)

Versailles as a symbol of French Absolutism

Assume you are a 17th-century French noble who has been invited to stay at Versailles for the season. Carry out a tour of the Palace and then write a letter home, describing what you saw and your thoughts about the symbols of absolutism.



Link 1
(http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/110.asp)

The Execution of Charles I

Using the two images and a contemporary newspaper account, compare the usefulness of images and texts as primary sources, and make inferences about this event from them.



Link 1
(http://www.adelpha.com/~davidco/History/charles1.htm)

Link 2
(http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/core/pics/0253/img0001.jpg)

Link 3
(http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/portrait/charlesbeheaded.jpg)

Images of the English Civil Wars

Assume you are an illiterate Londoner during the Civil War era. What use could you make of these images to understand this event?



Link 1
(http://collage.nhil.com/cgi-bin/collagedev/main.pl'sRCPAGE=searchsubj&CURRID=5189&WORD=En... )

A London newspaper, 1670s-90s

How newsworthy were these early newspapers. (N.B. It was published by the king's government.)



Link 1
(1670s-90s http://www.history.rochester.edu/London_Gazette/n-toc.htm)

Glorious Revolution

What was the Glorious Revolution, and how and why did it happen?



Link 1
(http://www.lawsch.uga.edu/~glorious/)

Bill of Rights

What problems did the Bill of Rights address? What solution(s) did it present? What type of polity did it devise?



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









Copyright2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Any use is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
McGraw-Hill Higher Education is one of the many fine businesses of The McGraw-Hill Companies.