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Unit 2, Episode 2: Comparing the American Revolution and the French Revolution


August 1, 2019Revolutions, Unit 2, Western Civhistoryrevisited

Why did the American Revolution stop being a revolution and, in the words of historian Eugen Weber, the French Revolution by contrast became an avalanche of social change? Why was it that the American Revolution escaped the fate of all other revolutions, and did not become, like the French Revolution, a prelude to a violent overturning of the social order? Listen (or read) here for my answer.

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