Format:-

Each student will be expected to make at least one tutorial presentation during the semester - generally on a topic introduced in lectures during the previous one or two weeks. Presentations should last no longer than 10 minutes and should be conceived as an introduction to discussion in the tutorial. They should NOT simply be read from a text. Students not presenting in any particular tutorial should come prepared to discuss the topic in question and to constructively criticize the presentation. In principle, there will be two presentations per tutorial.

Performance and participation (or lack of it) will be taken into account in the final assessment.

Week Tutorial Topic Presenter

1. INTRODUCTION

2. The relative roles of the Aristocratic Revolt and of popular
discontent in the origins of the Revolution

3. Why did the monarchy fall in 1792?
The relationship between war and the onset of Terror in 1793

4. The relationship between the Revolution and the growth of capitalism
The impact of the Revolution on French society

5. British and Continental European industrialization compared

6. Discuss the social impact of industrialization
Discuss the political impact of industrialization

7. Why did revolutions break out all over Europe in 1848?
Why did they fail?

8. Compare revolutionary and reformist socialism in theory and practice
What did the Paris Commune represent?

9. Is the term ‘unification’ a misnomer when applied to developments in
Italy and Germany between 1848 and 1871?
How did the ‘nationalism’ of 1914 differ from that of 1848?

10. Why was education such an obstacle to the reconciliation of Church and
State in the nineteenth century?

11. How democratic were the governmental systems of Western European
states by 1914?

12. REVISION