HIST 4002 - The French Revolution and Napoleon

3 hours

Prerequisites: HIST 1111 HIST 1112 The course will analyze the dynamics of the French Revolution. Topics to be covered: French absolutism, the Enlightenment, 1789 and the creation of constitutional monarchy, the role of sans-culottes, the Vendee, the rise and fall of Robespierre and the “Republic of Virtue,” Napoleon and his empire, and the Congress of Vienna. Students will be introduced to various historiographical traditions, including the works of Alexis de Tocqueville, Georges Lefebvre, Roger Chartier, Jürgen Habermas, François Furet, and others authors.