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 Age of Enlightenment

Internet Exercises

The American Revolution Compare the British and American perspectives on the American Revolution
Link 1 (http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/procreb.html)



Link 2 (http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/mbloy/c-eight/decind2.htm)

Women in the18th century Analyze the role of women in the18th century
Link 1 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1719defoe-women.html)



Link 2 (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/portrait/marymontagu.jpg)



Link 3 (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montagu.html)

A Modest Proposal

What point is Jonathan Swift making? How does he make it?

Link 1
(http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html)

Catherine the Great

Was Catherine the Great an Enlightened despot or just a despot? Characterize the Russian ruler's thinking about monarchy in the eighteenth century.

Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/18catherine.html)

True Religion: Voltaire vs. Wesley Compare Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary with John Wesley, A Short History of Methodism.
Link 1 (http://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/voltheis.htm)



Link 2 (http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/wesley/shorthistory.stm)

Capital punishment

Cesare Beccaria, Of Crimes and Punishments (1764), was the Enlightenment advocate for ending capital punishment. What was his argument?

Link 1
(http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/poltheory/beccaria/delitti/delitti.c28.html)

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