Origins of Modern Politics

To some extent, the American War of Independence inspired the French Revolution. Comment.

Origins of Modern Politics

The American War of Independence “deprived Great Britain of one empire, but it strengthened the foundations of another.”

Origins of Modern Politics

“The Bill of Rights (1688) set the seal on Parliamentary supremacy in England.” Comment.

Origins of Modern Politics

“If monarchical misrule ignited the French revolution, lofty ideas both inspired and sustained it.” Comment.

Origins of Modern Politics

The French Revolution (1789) sought to remove both “the religious and secular props of the existing social order.” Elucidate.

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The American Revolution “was a natural and even expected event in the history of colonial people who had come of age.” Comment.

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‘The scale, splendour and organized power of the monarchy of Louis XIV was something new in Europe.’ Comment.

Origins of Modern Politics

From the Thirty Years War finally emerged the modern state system of Europe. Do you agree?

Origins of Modern Politics

‘Napoleon was the child of the Revolution, but in many ways he reversed the aims and principles of the movement from which he sprang.’ Comment.

Origins of Modern Politics

‘The sponsors of the overseas expansion of Europe were national monarchies.’ Comment.

Origins of Modern Politics

Examine the issues involved in the American Civil War. Was it a contest between two separate nations?

Origins of Modern Politics

Discuss the view that Louis XIV of France was a great king-‘the grand monarch.’

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‘French political writers of the eighteenth century were influenced by Locke and also by the curious contrasts which they perceived between the government of his country and their own.’ Comment.

Origins of Modern Politics

What issues involved in the conflict between the King and Parliament in England in the seventeenth century? Discuss.

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‘The American war of Independence transformed Europeans as well as America.’ Comment in about 200 words.

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The French Revolution (1789) really achieved far less than what it intended to effect. Do you agree?

Origins of Modern Politics

Louis XIV ‘was the first French sovereign to make of monarchy a serious profession.’ Comment in about 200 words.

Origins of Modern Politics

Examine the view that the thirty years war (1618-1648) was essentially a contest between the Bourbon and Hapsburg houses for mastery of the Continent of Europe. How far did it settle the issue?

Origins of Modern Politics

“At the news of the Declaration of Independence crowds gathered to cheer, fire guns and cannon and ring church bells in Philadelphia. Boston and other places, but there were many people in America who did not rejoice.” Comment in about 200 words.

Origins of Modern Politics

Account for the emergence of the national monarchies in Europe in the sixteenth century. Did the monarchs build the national states less by design than by chance?

Origins of Modern Politics

‘If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.’ Comment in about 200 words.

Origins of Modern Politics

‘Napoleon was the child of the Revolution, but in many ways he reversed the aims and principles of the movement from which he sprang…” Comment in about 200 words.

Origins of Modern Politics

“What mattered in 1789-and what made men revolutionary almost in spite of themselves- was the whole revolutionary situation’; and in producing that situation the work of the philosophers played no very important role.” Comment in about 200 words.

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