The Age of Revolutions, 1775-1848

1 Unit · Undergraduate

Why do revolutions start? What makes them succeed or fail? How have people sought to unleash massive historical change ? or simply tried to survive it? To answer these questions, we will examine the outbreak of the interlinked 18th-century American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, then follow their aftershocks as a wave of revolutions sweeps the globe to create the modern world.