Readings: TWE, Chap. 1, 25-33, and Chap. 2, 48-59, and YAWP Chap. 3, 54-61. This is a formal paper that “connects” at least one specific theme or issues in the readings to a contemporary issue or experiences in your life today. After completing the notes on all the readings for that day you will then […]
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Objectivity and Bias and the Social History and Cultural History Approaches
For this discussion please read the following: “What is Ethnohistory?” and Suny – “Back and Beyond: Reversing the Cultural Turn?” –> both of these pieces will give you an excellent introduction to the emergence of the New Cultural History. Then, turn to the example of the New Cultural History as used by a historian –> […]
Causes of World War One
Include:– the alliance system (triple alliance and triple entente)– imperial rivalry– the arms race– assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the chain of events after that also include– the Balkan wars– imperialism– nationalism
Middle East history Primary Source Paper
Please follow the instructions below carefully as this is exactly how i would like my paper to be written. Choose ONE primary source related to Middle East history between 1700 and 1914. Primary sources are those created during the period under investigation and could include documents, state papers, laws and legal treatises, speeches, travel accounts, […]
The Revolution had a positive impact on women because it ushered in improvements in female education, legal standing, and economic opportunity. Progress in these three areas gave women experience of life in the public sphere outside the home.
Grade Rubric. Use a minimum of six sources for your paper, and at least one must be a primary source INTRODUCTION & THESIS: Includes a clear thesis statement, an assertion, or position. The topic is original and manageable in a short research paper. /points 20 FOCUS AND DEVELOPMENT: The body of the essay focuses on […]
Comparison of Narrative
:This section of your final project is where you will complete an analysis of how best to understand this event in history, based on the primary and secondary resources you have studied. Use your primary sources in particular to analyze yourtwo perspectives on the event in question.
Anglo American Settlement
The prompt is “What were the most important factors that encouraged Anglo-Americans and new immigrants to settle the West? What were the most important impediments to their efforts?” It has to articulate a thesis and only has to be 250 words. The main thing is it has to provide evidence/details from the note guidelines I […]
Indus Valley Civilization
Please respond to these discussion questions after reading the article on the Indus Valley below: 1. What aspects of the Indus Valley civilization does the author focus on and why? What is his purpose and intended audience? 2. Comment on the inscriptions /script of the Indus Valley civilization. Does the author think it was secular […]
What are the strengths and shortcomings of cosmopolitan memory practices?
What are the strengths and shortcomings of cosmopolitan memory practices?You should support your points with reference to secondary sources and to the texts we have analysed in class. The films we have looked at our “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Devil’s Backbone” and the music album “las barricadas” Your responses should be concise, precise, exciting in order […]
Pakistan and India: Community, Nation and the British Raj
Please read Ian Talbot’s article posted under Week two module and respond to the following questions – 1. How did the colonial empire reinforce a sense of ‘Indianness’ and of caste and religious community? 2. Did the British rule lead to the ‘traditionalisation’ of Indian society? 3. Comment on the notion of India as ‘timeless’, […]