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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 Struggle for Wealth and Empire

Internet Exercises

Popular nationalism

How do these songs project 18th-century nationalist values?



Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rulebritannia.html#Rule Britannia)

[Primary Source] Rule Britannia
Link 2
(http://www.contemplator.com/folk2/godsave.html)

[Primary Source] God Save the King

The Black Hole of Calcutta

How does the author think the story of the Black Hole of Calcutta was an important symbol in the history of British India?



Link 1
(http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/Blackh.html)

Elite and popular culture

How did Mozart's career reflect 18th century society, which continued to be dominated by the aristocracy but possessed a growing middle class interested in culture?



Link 1
(http://www.frontiernet.net/~sboerner/mozart/)

Rise of a Great Power

What story do the numbers in the table tell about Britain's rise as a great power in the 18th century? How do you think the numbers would have been different for Prussia, which was becoming a great power at the same time?



Link 1
(http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/Documents/War/18e/1816-Establishment.htm)

A harlot's progress.

What point was William Hogarth making in the series? Do you think he made it well?



Link 1
(http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/hogarth/harlots.htm)

Slavery

What does Olaudah Equiano's life reveal about the 18th-century slave trade and the institution of slavery?



Link 1
(http://campus.northpark.edu/history/Classes/Sources/Equiano.html)

How did common people live?

First inventory the contents of the homes in these prints and then describe the material resources available to common people in the 18th century. Compared with their medieval counterparts, do you think such people lived well or poorly?



Link 1
(http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hogarth/hogarth13.html)

Link 2
(http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Graphics/prentice.jpg)

Link 3
(http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/newchild/morland8blg.gif)

Link 4
(http://www.lamp.ac.uk/hogarth/IMG0104a.jpg)









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