The Prompt: You read a number of sources during Week nine regarding new theories of the relationship between state and society. Thinking of them in chronological order, in what ways do these theories evolve over time? Knowing what you do about European history in this period, why do later theorists have different views? If you were an eighteenth-century European, which would you think was most reasonable? (To avoid I/me/you/us/we phrases, write it beginning: “An eighteenth-century European would find X’s theory most reasonable.” Feel free to choose a specific gender, age, and class for your hypothetical European). All papers (short and long) must be in 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with one inch margins. Citations: Because this is an introductory history course, citations will be easy. You should, at the end of the sentence, use a parenthetical noting which source you used (13.3, for example) or (last name, date). You must cite your sources and you must paraphrase. If you only quote from sources and never paraphrase it is an automatic loss of a full letter grade. If you do not cite at all, it is an automatic zero. You will have the opportunity to fix one paper in which you lose points due to .
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