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University of Leeds French Revolution and Industrial Revolution Essay

 

  1. The French Revolution has been described as a crisis in politics and a long-term decline in a financial and legal system called Absolutism. Discuss with reference to both the Absolutist state and events in the French Revolution, 1789-95.
  2. The imperial race for power produced a European sense of superiority and cultural dominance in which the ideals of society, race, and gender were imposed across the global reach of colonial societies. Some historians would argue that this form of superiority masked a deep suspicion within European culture that degeneration and decay were very close to European societies themselves. Discuss.
  3. The Treaty of Versailles mapped the world of the Twentieth Century and at the same time continued the older forms of Euro-centric ideas of race, ethnicity, power and colony at the centre of this new world.