HI1532
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Summer examinations 2011/12
MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
Students must do ONE question.
Time allowed: One hour.
You should ensure that your response to each question is comparative.
1.
Why have famines persisted in the modern world?
2.
To what extent did the French revolution reflect the values of the Enlightenment?
3.
What was the Enlightenment's legacy for modernity?
4.
How has modernity changed the nature of violence?
5.
Why does socialism matter for understanding the modern world?
6.
Gender, class, or race: which is the most meaningful category to analyze identity in the
modern world?
7.
Is there a relationship between state terror and resistance?
8.
‘The idea of the nation presupposes the prior existence of the state.’ Does it?
9.
To what extent has European modernity been rooted in colonialism?
10.
Is there a link between the Cold War and globalisation?
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