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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. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?

2. Which class does Hobsbawm say published and circulated native-language publications?

3. What was the effect of the nobility trying to return to government in France?

4. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

5. What came to an end in 1830, according to Hobsbawm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say was the first wave of revolutions to follow the French Revolution?

2. Why does Hobsbawm say that raw materials like iron and coal did not expand the same way as cotton began to expand in the 1780s?

3. What does Hobsbawm say was the third wave of revolutions to follow the French Revolution?

4. What does Hobsbawm say is the difference between revolts and national movements?

5. What role did the cotton market play in the Industrial Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?

6. Describe the effect of the Greek revolution on Greece and the region.

7. What conditions made Britain ripe for the Industrial Revolution, according to Hobsbawm?

8. Describe the beginnings of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1792.

9. What was the effect, in Hobsbawm's account, of the American Revolution on the French Revolution?

10. How does Hobsbawm say that the political atmosphere changed after the French Revolution?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hobsbawm says that nationalism was a new phenomenon after 1830, and that it was tied to the rise of a middle class. Explain the relationship between nationalism and the rising middle class. How did the middle class use nationalism to define itself and its desires? What problems or pressures did nationalism answer or resolve for the middle class?

Essay Topic 2

How was Napoleon the ruler and leader of France, different from Napoleon the man? What movements did Napoleon, the man, ride at the forefront of? Did he shape his mythical identity consciously, or did the people of France and Europe create his mythical role themselves?

Essay Topic 3

What are Hobsbawm's historiographical priorities? What historiographical methods characterize his work? What themes is he interested in? How does he explore them? Compare this work (or contrast it) with other works of history you have read.

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