The Age of Revolutions

Undergraduate

This seminar examines the “dual revolution,” namely the industrial and political revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that reshaped the world. It investigates the Age of Revolution in historical perspective by focusing on selective cases from the American and French Revolutions to that of Greece, Haiti and the unsuccessful ones of 1848. It studies their origins, their impact, and their legacies. It examines the emergence of republicanism, constitutionalism, nationalism, capitalism, socialism, feminism and the movements and political projects these ideas formed across Europe and North America. The seminar offers a “from above” and a “from below” view of the Age of Revolution, examining how it influenced, shaped, and reshaped both the states and their societies. It aims to familiarize the students with its fundamental chronology, events, and actors, by exposing them to the new historiography, its questions, and concepts. WR , HU W 1:30pm-3:25pm