Working Thesis: The social and political upheaval that resulted from the French Revolution as well as Enlightenment theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s radical writings influenced the views and works of German Romantic philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, impelling him to develop and advocate for a new dialectic that would revolutionize European philosophy.
Sources include: "Hegel in 90 Minutes" by Paul Strathern (book) and "Contextualizing Hegel's Phenomenology of the French Revolution and the Terror" by Robert Wokler (article)
Working Thesis: The discovery of the Germ Theory of Disease, led to the study of the effect asepsis had on surgical procedures, and asepsis was then promoted by a number of important individuals, and this helped lower the overall morbidity and mortality in surgery.
Sources: (Here are 2 of them, I'll email you the other 9) 1. Man and medicine : a history , BY: Farokh Erach Udwadia. 2. The asceptic treatment of wounds. Tr. from the 2d German ed. by Alfred Theodore Rake.
Starting in the 1770s, many writers and painters began to express images of horror and the supernatural. These themes were brought about by a general disillusionment with 18th-century rationalism and by the rediscovery of older literature (folktales and ballads). These themes of Gothic horror and fantasy in the visual arts were also sparked by the French Revolution and other the imperial crisis around the 1780s. The French Revolution made many artists and writers to find a means of expressing the violence and novelty of these events. When Henry Fuseli created his painting “The Nightmare” in 1781, it was a turning point for Romanticism, and Gothic themes were embraced. My two sources so far are: "Nightmare: The Birth of Horror" and "The Rise of Supernatural Fiction 1762-1800"
I am suggesting that the French Revolution inspired an interest in horror and the supernatural in art and literature. I noticed this sudden fad at the end of the 1700s, and the beginning of the 1800s. I searched for events that could have caused it. The French Revolution fit the horror and the time period. However, I am quite sure I'm not the first to come to this conclusion.
Maeve, I think you will have to review the literature to know if you are the first to reach this conclusion. The broader theme here is what impact did the Revolution have on Romanticism. The Schama reading would suggest you are on to something. Get his book. "Citizens" and look through his footnotes and bibliography. That might be a place to start.
Thesis: The decline of the Ottoman Empire was managed and manipulated to satisfy the European balance-of-power, with Great Britain playing a significant role in supporting the declining Ottomans in order to counterbalance the rise of the Russian Empire. It is the redirection of European alliances during the Wilhelmine Period, combined with the rise of Turkish democratic movements such as the Young Turks, that led to the proper dissolution of the Empire following the Great War. Essentially: the Ottoman Empire was kept on life-support because of European "Great Powers Politics," and only dissolved when that system dissolved. Oil also has a huge role in this, but that's less political and more strategic. That line of inquiry would require a look into military technology and strategic development. Sources: Macfie, A. L. "The Eastern Question, 1774-1923". Viii ed. London: Longman, 1996. Mango, Andrew. "Atatürk". Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2000.
Working Thesis: As England moved quickly forward in the industrial revolution they left France strangling behind, hoping to catch up. France soon attempted to emulate England’s model for industrialization and in doing so came up with the commercial treaty of 1786 however the treaty was initialized just as the harvest failed in 1788, and the French revolution started, only a long period of peace would have allowed for the treaty to fulling welcome in an industrial revolution and thus the french were left far behind in industrialization.
Sources: Henerson, W.O. "The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786." The Economic History Review, New Series 10, no. 1 (1957): 104-12. Accessed February 15, 2015.
Horn, Jeff, Leonard N. Rosenband, and Merritt Roe Smith, eds. "Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution." 2010. Accessed February 15, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhgdm.
You need to express your argument more clearly and concisely. You seem to be saying that the French Revolution regarded French Industrialization. A very interesting thought because Palmer sees the political and the industrial revolutions as largely separate until the 1800s. You could argue against this view.
Working Thesis: The 1893 World Fair in Chicago accelerated the industrialization of the United States, allowing an increase in production ability which resulted in America becoming a superpower in World War I.
Sources: Jennings, Peter, and Todd Brewster. The Century. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
Miller, Donald M. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Touchstone, 1996.
The Nazism movement and Adolf Hitler were able to gain popularity through utilizing the discontent over the Treaty of Versailles and it’s anti-German elements, as well as the anger over the result of the Great War. These movements started World War II as a continuation of the power struggle that was the Great War.
Sources: Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918 Wilson and His Peacemakers: American Diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
Working history thesis: The Industrial Revolution was the startling transition to new, more efficient manufacturing processes starting in the late 18th century. With the increase in factories and “non-skilled” working jobs, the demand for cheap labor became quite large. Women began to help out in the factories, as did children. This newfound place in the working class for women lead to the rise of the feminist movement in the 18th century. Sources: “Industrial Revolution” by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/287086/Industrial-Revolution “Women’s History, feminist history” by June Hannam http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/womens_history.html
The primary view is that the Enlightenment was the main influence on the rise of 18th century feminism. I am arguing that the Industrial Revolution was the primary influence. This goes against the majority of the views on the subject, but I think I can prove it fairly well.
Working Thesis: The death of Frederick III in 1888 put Wilhelm II in charge, who, with the dismissal of Bismark, and his impatient and bellicose foreign policy, as seen by the Daily Telegraph affair and the New Course, put Europe in a state of chaos, culminating in World War 1.
Two Sources: Mommsen, Wolfgang. "Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Politics." In Journal of Contemporary History, 289-316. Vol. 25. New York: SAGE Publications, 1990.
MacDonogh, Giles. The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
Working Thesis: The Second Industrial Revolution dispersed the monopoly of technological advancements in England, broadening the technological advantages of steel and petroleum to other Western countries such as Germany. Also, the invention of faster transportation and the expansion of jobs led to large countries such as Russia and France creating a surplus of supplies with the manpower that other countries did not have. The extension Britain's technological monopoly to other European countries created a balance of power that was not present before the Second Industrial Revolution, leading to the tactical stalemate and high casual rate of World War I.
Sources: Recent Economic Changes and Their Effect on Production and Distribution of Wealth and Well-Being of Society by Wells David
"International Industrialization Levels from 1750 to 1980," Journal of European Economic History (1982) v. 11.
In a sense, yes. The industrialization was of course not the only factor into the stalemate in World War I, with other factors such as territory movement, use of strategic military tactics, late entrance of Britain/America into the war, etc., but Germany would have never been able to hold out for so long without its technological advances that occured in the Second Industrial Revolution
Working Thesis: The social and political upheaval that resulted from the French Revolution as well as Enlightenment theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s radical writings influenced the views and works of German Romantic philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, impelling him to develop and advocate for a new dialectic that would revolutionize European philosophy.
ReplyDeleteSources include: "Hegel in 90 Minutes" by Paul Strathern (book) and "Contextualizing Hegel's Phenomenology of the French Revolution and the Terror" by Robert Wokler (article)
Interesting, I look forward to reading the catenas that you discover.
DeleteWorking Thesis: The discovery of the Germ Theory of Disease, led to the study of the effect asepsis had on surgical procedures, and asepsis was then promoted by a number of important individuals, and this helped lower the overall morbidity and mortality in surgery.
ReplyDeleteSources: (Here are 2 of them, I'll email you the other 9)
1. Man and medicine : a history , BY: Farokh Erach Udwadia.
2. The asceptic treatment of wounds. Tr. from the 2d German ed. by Alfred Theodore Rake.
Interesting argument. Does your view differ from the literature?
DeleteStarting in the 1770s, many writers and painters began to express images of horror and the supernatural. These themes were brought about by a general disillusionment with 18th-century rationalism and by the rediscovery of older literature (folktales and ballads). These themes of Gothic horror and fantasy in the visual arts were also sparked by the French Revolution and other the imperial crisis around the 1780s. The French Revolution made many artists and writers to find a means of expressing the violence and novelty of these events. When Henry Fuseli created his painting “The Nightmare” in 1781, it was a turning point for Romanticism, and Gothic themes were embraced.
ReplyDeleteMy two sources so far are: "Nightmare: The Birth of Horror" and "The Rise of Supernatural Fiction 1762-1800"
So are you suggesting that the violence of the FR inspired a literature of horror and the supernatural? Is this view original with you?
DeleteI am suggesting that the French Revolution inspired an interest in horror and the supernatural in art and literature. I noticed this sudden fad at the end of the 1700s, and the beginning of the 1800s. I searched for events that could have caused it. The French Revolution fit the horror and the time period. However, I am quite sure I'm not the first to come to this conclusion.
DeleteMaeve, I think you will have to review the literature to know if you are the first to reach this conclusion. The broader theme here is what impact did the Revolution have on Romanticism. The Schama reading would suggest you are on to something. Get his book. "Citizens" and look through his footnotes and bibliography. That might be a place to start.
DeleteThesis: The decline of the Ottoman Empire was managed and manipulated to satisfy the European balance-of-power, with Great Britain playing a significant role in supporting the declining Ottomans in order to counterbalance the rise of the Russian Empire. It is the redirection of European alliances during the Wilhelmine Period, combined with the rise of Turkish democratic movements such as the Young Turks, that led to the proper dissolution of the Empire following the Great War. Essentially: the Ottoman Empire was kept on life-support because of European "Great Powers Politics," and only dissolved when that system dissolved. Oil also has a huge role in this, but that's less political and more strategic. That line of inquiry would require a look into military technology and strategic development.
ReplyDeleteSources: Macfie, A. L. "The Eastern Question, 1774-1923". Viii ed. London: Longman, 1996.
Mango, Andrew. "Atatürk". Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2000.
Interesting but very broad. I have read this view of the demise of the Ottoman Empire before. Can you find an original twist on its death?
DeleteWorking Thesis:
ReplyDeleteAs England moved quickly forward in the industrial revolution they left France strangling behind, hoping to catch up. France soon attempted to emulate England’s model for industrialization and in doing so came up with the commercial treaty of 1786 however the treaty was initialized just as the harvest failed in 1788, and the French revolution started, only a long period of peace would have allowed for the treaty to fulling welcome in an industrial revolution and thus the french were left far behind in industrialization.
Sources:
Henerson, W.O. "The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786." The Economic History Review, New Series 10, no. 1 (1957): 104-12. Accessed February 15, 2015.
Horn, Jeff, Leonard N. Rosenband, and Merritt Roe Smith, eds. "Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution." 2010. Accessed February 15, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhgdm.
You need to express your argument more clearly and concisely. You seem to be saying that the French Revolution regarded French Industrialization. A very interesting thought because Palmer sees the political and the industrial revolutions as largely separate until the 1800s. You could argue against this view.
DeleteWorking Thesis:
ReplyDeleteThe 1893 World Fair in Chicago accelerated the industrialization of the United States, allowing an increase in production ability which resulted in America becoming a superpower in World War I.
Sources:
Jennings, Peter, and Todd Brewster. The Century. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
Miller, Donald M. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Touchstone, 1996.
The Nazism movement and Adolf Hitler were able to gain popularity through utilizing the discontent over the Treaty of Versailles and it’s anti-German elements, as well as the anger over the result of the Great War. These movements started World War II as a continuation of the power struggle that was the Great War.
ReplyDeleteSources:
Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918
Wilson and His Peacemakers: American Diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
I agree. You express a fairly standard view of the Treaty of Versailles and its impact on the rise of Hitler. You need to have an original argument.
DeleteWorking history thesis:
ReplyDeleteThe Industrial Revolution was the startling transition to new, more efficient manufacturing processes starting in the late 18th century. With the increase in factories and “non-skilled” working jobs, the demand for cheap labor became quite large. Women began to help out in the factories, as did children. This newfound place in the working class for women lead to the rise of the feminist movement in the 18th century.
Sources:
“Industrial Revolution” by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/287086/Industrial-Revolution
“Women’s History, feminist history” by June Hannam
http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/womens_history.html
O.K. but please make sure your argument differs from the literature linking Feminism to the Industrial Revolution.
DeleteThe primary view is that the Enlightenment was the main influence on the rise of 18th century feminism. I am arguing that the Industrial Revolution was the primary influence. This goes against the majority of the views on the subject, but I think I can prove it fairly well.
DeleteWorking Thesis: The death of Frederick III in 1888 put Wilhelm II in charge, who, with the dismissal of Bismark, and his impatient and bellicose foreign policy, as seen by the Daily Telegraph affair and the New Course, put Europe in a state of chaos, culminating in World War 1.
ReplyDeleteTwo Sources:
Mommsen, Wolfgang. "Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Politics." In Journal of Contemporary History, 289-316. Vol. 25. New York: SAGE Publications, 1990.
MacDonogh, Giles. The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
Interesting thesis but is it original? Does the literature on the causes of World War I have a different view?
DeleteWorking Thesis: The Second Industrial Revolution dispersed the monopoly of technological advancements in England, broadening the technological advantages of steel and petroleum to other Western countries such as Germany. Also, the invention of faster transportation and the expansion of jobs led to large countries such as Russia and France creating a surplus of supplies with the manpower that other countries did not have. The extension Britain's technological monopoly to other European countries created a balance of power that was not present before the Second Industrial Revolution, leading to the tactical stalemate and high casual rate of World War I.
ReplyDeleteSources:
Recent Economic Changes and Their Effect on Production and Distribution of Wealth and Well-Being of Society by Wells David
"International Industrialization Levels from 1750 to 1980," Journal of European Economic History (1982) v. 11.
Are you suggesting that the course of Industrialization in Europe lead to a stalemate in World WarI?
DeleteIn a sense, yes. The industrialization was of course not the only factor into the stalemate in World War I, with other factors such as territory movement, use of strategic military tactics, late entrance of Britain/America into the war, etc., but Germany would have never been able to hold out for so long without its technological advances that occured in the Second Industrial Revolution
DeleteO.K. go with your topic
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