19th Century Europe

    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?