World History Spine · Medieval to early modern
The Enlightenment & the Atlantic Revolutions
How ideas of reason, rights and consent became revolutions: Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau; the American Revolution and Constitution; the French Revolution from the Bastille through the Terror to Napoleon; and the Haitian Revolution.
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Prereqs: The Scientific Revolution. Next: Industrial Revolution; Empires & colonialism. Sources: Jonathan Israel, *Radical Enlightenment*; Gordon Wood, *The Radicalism of the American Revolution*; William Doyle, *The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction*.Next: 1. Ideas