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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/town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/america/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.html )
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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