Liberty and its Price: Understanding the French Revolution

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Издательство: Recorded Books
Автор: Professor Donald Sutherland
Год: 2009
Формат: mp3,VBR
Размер: 342 Mb
Язык: English
Продолжительность: 7 hours and 49 mins
Esteemed professor Donald M.G. Sutherland provides a riveting account of the French Revolution, explaining how its effects varied greatly according to regional economies, social structures, and religious affiliations. He examines how massive counter revolutionary movements profoundly affected the course of the Revolution, Leading to the failure of constitutional government and, ultimately, to an elitist dictatorship (in the person of Napoleon Bonaparte) that paved the way for many of the struggles of the 19th century.

Course Syllabus
Lecture 1 Definition of Revolution
Lecture 2 Revolution of Elites
Lecture 3 Popular Revolution
Lecture 4 Restructuring and Early Opposition
Lecture 5 War Revolutionizes the Revolution
Lecture 6 Massacres and Republic
Lecture 7 Death of a King
Lecture 8 Terror
Lecture 9 Thermidor or the Failure of Law
Lecture 10 The Directory and Victory
Lecture 11 The Road to Brumaire
Lecture 12 Formation of a Dictatorship
Lecture 13 Empire
Lecture 14 The Disaster