History 691AR - S-Atlantic Revolutions

This class explores recent scholarship on the tumultuous era of the Atlantic Revolutions. We look comparatively at the major Revolutions of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, particularly the French and Haitian Revolutions, but also the American Revolution, other European and Latin American Revolutions, and various contemporary upheavals. We also investigate the transnational movements of peoples-men and women, free and enslaved,-ideas, and laws. Part of the class may also be devoted to investigating how useful frameworks of the "Atlantic World" or "Atlantic Revolutions" are to making sense of these events and developments

Open to Doctoral & Masters students only.