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.
Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
Suzanne M. Desan
