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Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon

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Examine a crucial turning point for humanity-the French Revolution and its aftermath-in which common people threw off the shackles of oppression and seized freedom.

Syllabus

  • 01: Introduction and the Old Regime Monarchy
  • 02: Privilege-Old Regime Society
  • 03: The Enlightenment
  • 04: France, Global Commerce, and Colonization
  • 05: American Revolution and the Economic Crisis
  • 06: The Political Awakening of 1789
  • 07: July 14th-Storming the Bastille
  • 08: Peasant Revolt and the Abolition of Feudalism
  • 09: The Declaration of the Rights of Man
  • 10: Paris Commands Its King
  • 11: Political Apprenticeship in Democracy
  • 12: Religion and the Early Revolution
  • 13: The Revolution and the Colonies
  • 14: Women's Rights in the Early Revolution
  • 15: The King's Flight
  • 16: Foreign Reactions-A Divided Europe
  • 17: The Path to War with Europe
  • 18: Overthrowing the Monarchy
  • 19: The King's Trial
  • 20: The Republic at War
  • 21: Revolutionary Culture and Festivals
  • 22: Family and Marriage
  • 23: Slave Revolt and the Abolition of Slavery
  • 24: Counterrevolution and the Vendee
  • 25: The Pressure Cooker of Politics
  • 26: Revolution in Crisis-Summer 1793
  • 27: Terror Is the Order of the Day
  • 28: The Revolution Devours Her Children
  • 29: The Overthrow of Robespierre
  • 30: The Thermidorian Reaction
  • 31: The Directory-An Experimental Republic
  • 32: Young Napoleon
  • 33: The Italian Campaign and the Sister Republics
  • 34: Sister Republics? France and America
  • 35: Bonaparte in Egypt
  • 36: Bonaparte Seizes Power
  • 37: Building Power-General and First Consul
  • 38: Napoleon Becomes Emperor
  • 39: Napoleon's Ambitions in the New World
  • 40: Taking on the Great Powers
  • 41: Expanding the Empire
  • 42: France during the Empire
  • 43: Living under the Empire
  • 44: The Russian Campaign
  • 45: Napoleon's Fall and the Hundred Days
  • 46: Waterloo and Beyond
  • 47: Emerging Political Models
  • 48: Revolutionary Legacies
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Suzanne M. Desan

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