Category Archives: Western Civ

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

Revolutions, Unit 2, Western Civ
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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Unit 2 Overview: The Age of Revolutions and Romanticism, 1776-1848

Revolutions, Unit 2, Western Civ

 

n this brief overview, we preview the other podcasts in this episode, which define the ideas of liberalism, nationalism and romanticism, and we preview their role as triggers of two very different kinds of revolution in the nineteenth century to come.

n this brief overview, we preview the other podcasts in this episode, which define the ideas of liberalism, nationalism and romanticism, and we preview their role as triggers of two very different kinds of revolution in the nineteenth century to come.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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