For this week’s discussion, you must have completed reading Chapter 11 in the Pavlac textbook and viewed the lesson in Week 4.
For this Discussion, answer ONE of the instructor-provided questions:
- Reading primary sources can inform our understanding of secondary and tertiary sources. Choose ONE of the following primary sources from the Industrial Revolution. How does the information contained in this primary source reflect the historical narrative provided by Pavlac? Does the primary source challenge Pavlac’s account of industrialization in any way? If so, how?
- Richard Guest on the Steam Loom
- Friedrich Engel’s account of conditions in Manchester in 1844
- An excerpt from Andrew Ure’s The Philosophy of Manufactures
- A letter to The Times newspaper from Michael Faraday (1855)
- How does the Congress of Vienna attempt to “fix” the changes caused by the French Revolution? How successful is it in doing so?
- The early nineteenth century saw the rise of three powerful ideologies: nationalism, liberalism, and socialism. Which of these do you think had the greatest impact on the events of the first half of the century? Why?
- Europe erupted into multiple revolutions between 1848 and 1849. As you may expect, some nations were more successful than others. Was this because of how the revolution was handled? Or was it simply not the right time for a particular government to make the changes its people wanted? Choose one of the nations that experienced a revolution in 1848-1849. Do you think the political situation was handled correctly? What could have been done differently to get the government to pay attention to the demands of the population? Could the violence have been avoided?
