HIST 311 TAKE HOME MID-TERM EXAMINATION

History 311 November27 ,2007
Fall 2007
Bogazici University
Huricihan Islamoglu

TAKE HOME MID-TERM EXAMINATION
Instructions: You are expected to write essays (maximum five pages) for each of the questions below. Dateline for handing in the answers is December 5th,2007)

1. Discuss the nature of the free-tradist era(1815-1870) in relation to the establishment of British hegemony in the world economy. Based on K.Polanyi’s discussion what were the policy-measures enacted by the British government that made free-tradism possible.(33 points)
2.. In what ways the 1880 and 1890s shaping of world capitalist economy differed from the free-trade era? Discuss this in relation to the 1870s crisis of capitalism – its causes and consequences. Was war an inevitable consequence of the development of national market economies which emerged in the aftermath of crisis? Discuss this in relation to Germany.(33points)