Topic: Summarize and compare the perspectives of Taylor and Appleby on the politics of the early 19th century. To get you going, you may want to consider the following questions. You can answer these questions in your essay, or not, as long as you do the work of summarizing and comparing:

Is one of the two historians more optimistic about this period? More skeptical?

Are there clear winners and losers, or good and bad guys, in the stories they tell? If so, what lessons do the historians draw about them?

Whose world would you prefer to live in, the one described by Taylor, or the one described by Appleby? Why?