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What you need to do: Step 1: Follow the links to the primary sources provided below

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What you need to do:

Step 1: Follow the links to the primary sources provided below.

Step 2: Analyse each primary source carefully.

Step 3: Follow the instructions for Part A and Part B.

Step 4: Answer all questions in Part A and Part B.

Step 5: Fully reference your answer to Part B using the Chicago Manual of Style.

Step 6: Submit your answers via Turnitin on LEO by the due date.

Assessment Criteria:

• Demonstrated understanding of relevant concepts, case studies and content studied in the unit
• Critical analysis of historical primary sources
• Identifies the significance of primary sources for the study of global history
• Meets university level standards of written expression, including correct spelling and grammar
• All work used is appropriately acknowledged and referenced.

Part A: Short Answer Questions (45 marks)

Drawing on the primary sources listed below, you must answer each question in approximately 100 words. The total word limit for your combined answers in this section is 600 words. Your answers in this section do not need to be referenced.

Source 1: President Wilson’s Fourteen Points

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/wilson14.asp

Source 2: Victor Weisz in The Evening Standard, 19 October 1962

https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/GetMultimedia.ashx?db=Catalog&type=default&fname=VY2026.jpg

Source 3: Barnaby J. Feder, ‘On the Year 2000 Front, Humans Are the Big Wild Cards’, New York Times, 28 December 1999: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/28year.html

1. What is the historical background to Source 1? (approx. 100 words)
2. Why was Source 1 an important document in modern global history? (approx. 100 words)
3. What is the historical background to Source 2? (approx. 100 words)
4. How are visual sources (such as Source 2) valuable as primary sources for historians? What limitations might they have? (approx. 100 words)
5.  What is the historical background to Source 3? (approx. 100 words)
6. How are newspaper articles (such as Source 3) valuable as primary sources for historians? What limitations might they have? (approx. 100 words)

 

Part B: Extended Answer (55 marks)

600 words, excluding references

“Globalisation emerged at the end of the Cold War as a way to explain a world without borders”. To what extent do you agree with this statement, and why?

Discuss this statement with reference to weeks 9-12.

In your answer you should refer to at least two secondary sources (these sources should be taken from our weekly readings or your own further research). Your answer should be fully referenced using the Chicago Manual of Style.