HIS Paper 3

Hans Lederhosen was born in 1848 in Germany and died in 1928 at the marvelous old age 80 (quite remarkable at a time when the average life expectancy in Germany was less than 60 years).  During his lifetime, he saw the forces of nationalism and imperialism reshape his country’s prospects and he witnessed a global war.  In 1927, Hans Lederhosen was invited to speak to the League of Nations (the fledging world organization tasked with maintaining world peace) and to draw on his life experiences to offer advice about the most pressing problems the world faced.  What did he say? You should write your paper from the perspective of the Hans Lederhosen as a formal speech with an introduction and a conclusion that assesses the success and failures of Germany, its European neighbors (Britain, France, Russia, etc), and its imperial holdings from 1848 to 1927.

To make your case, you should reference historical events/ideas that shaped the world in the 19th and 20th centuries, including nationalism, imperialism, communism, and war. You must use at least four documents from the Envisioning Reader.  These are first-person accounts and images that Hans may have read during his lifetime.  You should also use the textbook and the lectures to provide context.  We strongly discourage (but don’t prohibit) the use of outside sources, but if you use sources other than the text, reader, and lecture, you must provide full sources using a standard citation format.  For the assigned sources, you can use abbreviated citations.  When you use the Envisioning Reader, you can cite it by putting the document number in parenthesis at the end of a sentence that references the work.  When you use the textbook, you should put the author’s name Hanson and the page number in parenthesis.  Direct quotes from any source must be in quotation marks. Your paper should be six double-spaced-pages long and use a traditional 10-point font (such as Times New Roman).