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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/od/nightingale/ )

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://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=69 )
Link 2

( http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=70 )

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://europeanhistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=europeanhistory&zu=ht... )

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
(Commodore Perry and Captain Matthews)
( http://www.us-japan.org/jsnc/virtualjapan/images/bss/perry2.JPG )
Link 2
(surveyors)
( http://www.us-japan.org/jsnc/virtualjapan/images/bss/survey2.JPG )
Link 3
(William Heine, the official artist of the Perry Expedition)
( http://www.us-japan.org/jsnc/virtualjapan/images/bss/artist2.JPG )
Link 4
(agriculturalist Dr. James Morrow)
( http://www.us-japan.org/jsnc/virtualjapan/images/bss/foliage2.JPG )
Link 5
(2 sailors, dancing)
( http://www.us-japan.org/jsnc/virtualjapan/images/bss/dancers2.JPG )
Link 6
(an alien, 1863)
( http://ddb.libnet.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/library/ishin/shouin/image/big/0707066.jpg )







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