First Essay Prompts.
Choose
one
of the following questions for your three page paper. These questions are best
answered by using three to four sources across multiple weeks. Some of the questions reflect
material from the third week of class, which we have not yet covered.
The paper is due
in class
Monday, April 20
th
.
1.
What is a nation? How does one recognize it? What is the difference between a nation
and a nation-state?
2.
What are interests? Can one work in their own best interests without working against the
interest of another?
3.
Based on the works of Marx, Hastings, Macaulay, and Nehru, how did Europeans
construct Indian people as “the other?” What differences did Europeans employ to
construct India and its people as exotic and inferior? Did they also see positive aspects of
Indian culture?
4.
Compare and contrast the Haitian Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Why is the
word revolution used to describe them both? Are they the same thing?
5.
What do we mean by the “conquest of knowledge” when we speak the effects of
