Previous year questions

"The Declaration of Rights was the death-warrant of the system of privilege, and so of the ancient regime … Yet in the history of ideas it belonged rather to the past than to the future." Examine.

"Six hundred thousand men had died. The union was preserved, the slaves freed. A nation 'conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal' had survived its most terrible ordeal." Critically examine.

"Change in Britain came comparatively peacefully through democratic process in the first half of the nineteenth century and a model of a functioning democracy through ballot box was successfully put in place." Elaborate.

"The American Revolution was essentially an economic conflict between American capitalism and British mercantilism." Critically examine.

How did Napoleon fuse the French of the ancient regime with the France of the Post-Revolutionary era?

"The connection between the philosophers' ideas and the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789) is somewhat remote and indirect." Critically evaluate.

"The roots of Chartism are partly political and partly economic." Elaborate.

To what extent did Napoleon's economic war with England become his undoing?

How far is it correct to say that every feature of the American Constitution was ultimately of English Origin?

How did Napoleon Bonaparte fuse the old France with the new?