Essays should be structured as paragraphs and should contain a thesis statement

Essays should be structured as paragraphs and should contain a thesis statement answering the question, not a restatement of the question. The essays should only use the assigned reading: the primary sources, Kishlanky, and the secondary sources (i.e. certain modules also have articles). Essays that use other translations of the primary works, other secondary sources, non-assigned websites, or any other non-assigned material will not pass.
Each essay should be 500-650 words, plus footnotes. So, you will write 2,000-2,600 words total (four essays). Footnotes must be in Chicago Style. Essays without footnotes will be rejected and will earn zero points. If you do not know Chicago Style, Rampolla has an easy-to-understand guide, covering all the reference types. This is Course Text No. 3 (above). You may also consult the Chicago Manual of Style. The Citation Quick Guide covers most scenarios. Log in through the proxy server if you are using a computer off campus.
Essays should be structured as paragraphs and should contain a thesis statement answering the question, not a restatement of the question. The essays should only use the assigned reading: the primary sources, Kishlanky, and the secondary sources (i.e. certain modules also have articles). Essays that use other translations of the primary works, other secondary sources, non-assigned websites, or any other non-assigned material will not pass.
Each essay should be 500-650 words, plus footnotes. So, you will write 2,000-2,600 words total (four essays). Footnotes must be in Chicago Style. Essays without footnotes will be rejected and will earn zero points. If you do not know Chicago Style, Rampolla has an easy-to-understand guide, covering all the reference types. This is Course Text No. 3 (above). You may also consult the Chicago Manual of Style. The Citation Quick Guide covers most scenarios. Log in through the proxy server if you are using a computer off campus.
MODULE 5 Essay Question:
Explain the major differences between the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, and the Grievance List of the Free Blacks and Mulattos in Haiti.
Reading: https://archive.org/details/CivilizationInTheWestCombinedVolume7thEdition/page/n610/mode/1up
1. Kishlansky, Civilization in the West, 590-608
2. *Cahier of 1789, The Third Estate of Versailles, France. http://history.hanover.edu/texts/cahiers3.html
3. *“Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” (in Kishlansky, 600)
4. *“Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen” (in Kishlansky, 601)
One presentation on both declarations.
1. “The Code Noir (The Black Code, 1685),” Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring The French Revolution. https://revolution.chnm.org/d/335.
2. *“Grievance List of the Free Blacks and Mulattos in Haiti, 1789,” Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring The French Revolution. http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/338/
3. *Abbé Grégoire, “Memoir in Favor of the People of Color or Mixed–Race of Saint Domingue” (1789), Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring The French Revolution. https://revolution.chnm.org/d/341
Module 6 Essay Question:
Explain and evaluate Smith’s argument that merchants’ economic activity (trade and manufacturing) promoted order, good government, and liberty.
Readings:
1. Kishlansky, 609-14 (Reign of Napoleon, 1799-1815), 654-660 (stop at Liberalism)
2. *Blackboard: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, in Ball/Dagger, 132-140
3. *P. J. Laborie, The Coffee Planter of Saint-Domingo (London, 1798), “To the Reader,” pp. iii-vi (scan of the original book) and the excerpt pp. 157–70 here: http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/337/
Readings:
1. Kishlansky, 618-630
2. *Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (London: J.F. Dove, 1826 [1776]), Book III, Chapters 3-4, “Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns after the Fall of the Roman Empire” and “How the Commerce of the Towns Contributed to the Improvement of the Country,” 370-392. https://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/12267535
Module 7 Essay Question:
What does Mazzini mean when he states, “education, labour, and the franchise, are the three main pillars of the Nation”? How do these define his liberal nationalist ideology?
Readings:
1. Kishlansky, 665-666 (section on Nationalism; stop before Socialism), 668-673 (Protest and Revolution, including the revolutions of 1830), 676-683 (Revolutions across Europe, 1848-1850)
2. *Romantic Nationalism- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation (1806), “First Address: Introduction and General Survey,” edited by George Armstrong Kelly (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1968), 1-15. https://archive.org/details/addressestogerma0000fich/page/n7/mode/2up
3. *Liberal Risorgimento Nationalism- Joseph Mazzini, An Essay On the Duties of Man Addressed to Workingmen (written in 1844 and 1858), Chapter V, “Duties Towards Your Country,” New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1892, 57-63. https://archive.org/details/essayondutiesofm00mazz/page/n1/mode/2up
Readings:
1. Kishlansky, 660-1 (section on Liberalism)
2. *Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman [1792], Chapters I-II (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), 7-38. https://archive.org/details/vindicationofrig00woll_2/mode/2up
3. *John Stuart Mill, On Liberty [1859]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, Chapter 1, Chapter IV: 73-85, 139-155. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csicuny/detail.action?docID=3420105
Module 8 Essay Question:
Analyze three elements in Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto that show it is an ideology.
Readings:
1. Kishlansky, 666-668 (on Socialism; skip the excerpt of the “The Communist Manifesto,” because we’re reading the full version, below)
2. The Life of the Industrial Worker in Nineteenth-Century England — Evidence Given Before the Sadler Committee (1831-1832). https://victorianweb.org/history/workers1.html
3. *Blackboard: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848
Readings:
1. Kishlansky, 718-722
2. *Sidney Webb, “The Historic Basis of Socialism,” 1889. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1889webb.asp
3. *Blackboard: Eduard Bernstein, excerpts from Evolutionary Socialism
Primary Sources:Readings:
1. Kishlansky, Civilization in the West, 378-407
2. Francesco C. Cesareo. “Catholic Reformation,” Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Ed. Jonathan Dewald. Vol. 5. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004, 145-150. link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3404900955/GVRL?u=cuny_statenisle&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=cc9a65bf.
3. *Martin Luther, “Against Catholicism,” 1535. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1535luther.html
4. *The Council of Trent, Fifth Session, 1546. http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct05.html
Readings:
1. Kishlansky, Civilization in the West, 378-407
2. Francesco C. Cesareo. “Catholic Reformation,” Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Ed. Jonathan Dewald. Vol. 5. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004, 145-150. link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3404900955/GVRL?u=cuny_statenisle&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=cc9a65bf.
3. *Martin Luther, “Against Catholicism,” 1535. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1535luther.html
4. *The Council of Trent, Fifth Session, 1546. http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct05.html