HIST 328 - The French Revolution and Napoleon

3 Credit(s)

The course examines the causes, development, spread, and defeat of the Great French Revolution. The course will first familiarize the students with the politics of the Old Regime and Enlightenment political philosophy. They will also explore the development of constitutional monarchy, political and economic Liberalism, a democratic republic, and authoritarian government. The course will especially focus upon the relationship between social and political conflict and between foreign and domestic policy. Students will become familiar with Romantic Nationalist, Marxist, Social, Revisionist, and more recent interpretations of the Revolution.