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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 was production freed from in the 1780s?

2. Why didn't disagreements between nations reach the level of international war?

3. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?

4. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

5. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say were the monarchies' relationships with land use and the economy in 1780?

2. Describe Robespierre's influence on the French Revolution.

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Hobsbawm say that the nationalistic ideal spread through Europe?

9. Who, in Hobsbawm's account, formed the foundation for what Hobsbawm calls "self-conscious' nationalism?

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write a detailed review of "The Age of Revolution". What are the book's main themes and preoccupations? What are its methods? How does it achieve its intentions? Where does it fail to?

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