COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

1. What might contemporary readers have found unsettling about the idea that women should have the right to vote or that dreams could reveal one’s innermost desires? How do both ideas represent a blurring of traditional boundaries between public and private life?

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   What might contemporary readers have found unsettling about the idea that women should have the right to vote or that dreams could reveal one’s innermost desires? How do both ideas represent a blurring of traditional boundaries between public and private life?
2. In the opening paragraphs of his letter, Zola mocks militant nationalism as part of his call for a return to a government based on honesty, tolerance, and the rule of law. Based on the attitudes of the Parisian students surveyed in the 1912 opinion poll, do you think that in the long run the French government heeded his call?

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   In the opening paragraphs of his letter, Zola mocks militant nationalism as part of his call for a return to a government based on honesty, tolerance, and the rule of law. Based on the attitudes of the Parisian students surveyed in the 1912 opinion poll, do you think that in the long run the French government heeded his call?
3. How did Treitschke’s and Kipling’s attitudes toward imperialism overlap? Why did the San Francisco Call’s editorial challenge such views? What does this suggest about the perils of imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century?

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   How did Treitschke’s and Kipling’s attitudes toward imperialism overlap? Why did the San Francisco Call’s editorial challenge such views? What does this suggest about the perils of imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century?
4. In what ways do the documents in this chapter challenge such liberal political values as equal citizenship, tolerance, and the rule of law?

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   In what ways do the documents in this chapter challenge such liberal political values as equal citizenship, tolerance, and the rule of law?