Nineteenth-Century Europe: Between Revolution and War

    Choose ONE of the questions below and write a 2,000 word essay addressing it   1. Population and Society What were the causes of the “demographic revolution” in European society between 1750 and 1850?   2. Romanticism Liberals, radicals and conservatives all adopted themes in the cultural movement of Romanticism for their own ideological purposes. Explain how Romanticism could exert such a wide appeal, and how it was utilised in the service of nineteenth-century nationalist movements.     3. Social Change in Industrialised Britain What does EITHER Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton OR her novel North and South say about the effects of industrialization in nineteenth-century Britain? Does she have a political message in the novel?   4. Ireland How and to what extent can Ireland be considered a “colony” of Britain in the 1800s?   5. Scandinavia What were the major historical changes in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland) in the period from 1780 to 1850, and how did the history of this region differ from that of such countries as Britain, France and Germany during this period?