Atlantic revolutions, c. 1760-1830

Elective Course

This course considers the wave of revolutions which rocked France and the British, French and Spanish empires in the New World at the end of the 1700s and the beginning of the 1800s. These inter-connected revolutions transformed France, and led to independence and revolutionary change in the United States, Haiti, and much of Spanish-speaking Latin America. This course considers these revolutions both as discrete national phenomena and as interrelated events fundamentally linked by Atlantic connections.