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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?
2. What does Hobsbawm say is the dual root of nationalism in Europe?
3. What product does Hobsbawm say was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?
4. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?
5. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Hobsbawm's account, why was 1830 a turning point in the history of Europe?
2. Why did a period of peace follow the Napoleonic Wars, in Hobsbawm's account?
3. What were the geographical consequences of the Napoleonic Wars, in Hobsbawm's account?
4. Describe Robespierre's influence on the French Revolution.
5. How does Hobsbawm say the population was distributed in the 1780s?
6. In Hobsbawm's account, was the Napoleonic War worth the destruction it caused for the economic benefits that followed?
7. What was the importance of railroads, in Hobsbawm's account, in the Industrial Revolution?
8. What role did the cotton market play in the Industrial Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?
9. Where does Hobsbawm say the European nations expanded their influence, for lack of war in Europe?
10. What conditions made Britain ripe for the Industrial Revolution, according to Hobsbawm?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How important was nationalism in the revolutions Hobsbawm describes? Was it a cause or an effect of the revolutions? If it was a cause, what were its effects? If it was an effect, what caused it?
Essay Topic 2
Not everyone was thrilled by the development of a new middle class, a new middle class ideology, and a Romantic or liberal perspective on history, culture, and the arts. Describe the opposition to progress, Romanticism, liberalism, and Communism. Who were the groups, classes or individuals who resisted the revolutions that changed the world in the 19th century?
Essay Topic 3
What are the major developments that have shaped the hundred and sixty or so years since 1848? Choose one and describe, in much the way Hobsbawm does, the factors that led to the development, as well as its primary consequences.
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