Кто читает:: Школа исторических наук

Статус:: Курс по выбору

Когда читается:: 3-й курс, 3 модуль

Преподаватель

Туренко Кристина Армановна

Full Syllabus

Abstract

Era of Revolutions in the Atlantic World. В этом курсе рассматриваются революции, которые распространились по всему Атлантическому миру с конца 18-го по середину 19-го века, период, называемый в историографии Эпохой атлантических революций. С особым акцентом на Американской войне за независимость, Французской революции, Гаитянской революции, Испано-американских войнах за независимость, в нем дается обзор предпосылок, ключевых событий и связей между ними. Построение современного мира и разрыв со старыми устоями породили политические и конституционные эксперименты, национальные идеи, социальные и культурные изменения. Эти события, фундаментально связанные атлантической концепцией, будут рассмотрены в интеллектуальной и глобальной перспективе. This course examines the revolutions that spread across the Atlantic world from the late 18th to the mid-19th century, a period called in historiography the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. With a particular focus on the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the Spanish American Wars of Independence, it provides an overview of premises, key events, and connections between them. Building modern world and breaking with old foundations gave birth to the political and constitutional experiments, national ideas, social and cultural changes. These events fundamentally linked by Atlantic concept will be considered in intellectual and global perspective.

Learning Objectives

To introduce students to the history of Atlantic revolutions (late 18th – mid-19th centuries)
To illuminate the concept of Atlantic revolutions and its development, using methodologies from comparative, global, intellectual history
To gain knowledge about connections between global and local consequences of revolutionary change
To foster critical thinking and develop skills in close reading

Expected Learning Outcomes

To be familiar with the history of the main revolutions in the Atlantic World
To comprehend the reasons, processes, outcomes, and connections between the revolutions (primarily, the American, the French, the Haitian, and the Spanish American ones)
To understand the evolution of the Atlantic concept’s historiography and methodology
To be able to analyze revolutions in the global context

Course Contents

Introduction. What is Atlantic history?
Atlantic revolutions: classical narratives
The concept of Age of Revolution

Assessment Elements

Seminar activity
Essay
Original, well written essay up to 2000 words on a predetermined or proposed topic. Essay topics will be sent to students in advance.
Exam
The oral exam consists of two questions from a list that will be sent to students in advance. Questions will be devoted to the topics of the course including both the seminar readings and lectures.

Interim Assessment

2023/2024 3rd module
0.3 * Essay + 0.3 * Exam + 0.4 * Seminar activity

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

American revolutions : a continental history, 1750-1804, Taylor, A., 2017
Empires of the Atlantic world : Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830, Elliott, J. H., 2020
Geggus, D. (2010). Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.4071996C
Kidd, C. (1999). British Identities Before Nationalism : Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=54555
Nelson, W. M., Hunt, L., & Desan, S. (2013). The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=671401
R. R. Palmer. (2014). The Age of the Democratic Revolution : A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition. Princeton University Press.
The Atlantic world : Europeans, Africans, Indians and their shared history, 1400-1900, Benjamin, T., 2009
The British Atlantic world, 1500-1800, , 2002
The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, Ghachem, M. W., 2012
The Oxford handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850, , 2013
The Spanish American revolutions, 1808-1826, Lynch, J., 1973
van Ittersum, M., & Jacobs, J. (2012). Are We All Global Historians Now? An Interview with David Armitage. Itinerario, 36(2), 7–28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115312000551

Recommended Additional Bibliography

For God and liberty : Catholicism and revolution in the Atlantic world, 1790-1861, Voekel, P., 2023
Geggus, D. P. (2014). The Haitian Revolution : A Documentary History. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=836318
Haitian connections in the Atlantic world : recognition after revolution, Gaffield, J., 2015
Антропология революции : сб. ст. по материалам 16 Банных чтений журнала "Новое литературное обозрение" (Москва, 27 - 29 марта 2008 г.), , 2009

Authors

Turenko KRISTINA ARMANOVNA

Бакалаврская программа «История»

Era of Revolutions in the Atlantic World