France in the Age of Revolution

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course examines the social, cultural, economic, and political forces that combined to produce the French Revolution placing particular emphasis on use of primary sources for reconstructing revolutionary experience. Themes include: society in the ancien régime, the Enlightenment, revolutionary political experimentation, war,women and revolution, and the Terror. (Format: Lecture/Tutorial 3 Hours) (Exclusion: HIST 3371)