Bachelor
2023/2024
Era of Revolutions in the Atlantic World
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (History)
Area of studies:
History
Delivered by:
School of History
Where:
Faculty of Humanities
When:
3 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Туренко Кристина Армановна
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
32
Course 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
- EssayOriginal, well written essay up to 2000 words on a predetermined or proposed topic. Essay topics will be sent to students in advance.
- ExamThe 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.
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