Answer ONE of the following questions in regard to ONE of the primary souces
provided-
Either:
1- In response to Ernest Renan’s “What is a Nation?”, answer the following: Which
qualities does Renan believe to be central to the definition of nationhood, and which
definitions of nationhood does he reject? Based on Renan’s lectu’e and what you have
learned in the couse so far about various nineteenth-centuy definitions of nationhood,
to what extent do you agree with his ideas?
Or:
2- In response to Chapter 4 of John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women, answer the
following: In the England of 1869, what dawbacks does Mill see the contemporary
situation of women as having, and how does he believe these should be ameliorated?
What benefits for women, men and wider society does he believe will accrue if women
are given the same measu’e of liberty as men in their lives?
