Using the textbook and the web-based primary sources to provide responses to the questions below. Each of the questions should require a couple of sentences to a paragraph, and the entire essay should be about two typed pages (double spaced, using standard margins, 12 point Times New Roman font, approximately 400-500 words). You do not need to cite the textbook or the primary sources formally; you can simply say, for example: Bachman says…. (Bachman, p. 68) to show where you are referring to. Be sure to answer the questions in your own words.
Please discuss the major intellectual trends of the nineteenth century by answering the following questions:
- What were the basic ideas of Liberalism?
- What was Romanticism and what was it a reaction against?
- What were the basic ideas of Communism as described by Marx and Engels (look at Communist Manifesto) and how did these ideas differ from the tenets of liberalism?
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