Overview
Description
France, Europe and the world during the age of the French Revolution and the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- explain the causes of the French Revolution: Enlightenment values, absolutism and royal privilege, debt, taxation, and famine.
- evaluate the legacy of the French Revolution, particularly as it relates to colonial and political struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- read, interpret, and analyze primary source texts with attention to content, historical and cultural context, genre, and language.