HIST 390C - First Conservative,Worst Radicals

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Bates College

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Edmund Burke virtually invented modern conservatism as a political philosophy in his Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790) and related speeches and writings against the French Revolution. Sympathizers then rushed into print to defend its principles, led by Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men ( 1790) and Thomas Paine's Rights of Man ( 1791). From the perspective of good conservatives, worse followed, among the very worst, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman ( 1792), the foundation text for modern feminism, and Paine's Rights of Man, Part Second ( 1792), a similar reference point for working-class radicalism. This course revives the great debate. Recommended background: History 104 or 224. Enrollment limited to 15. (European.) [W2] J. R. Cole.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bates.edu/

Phone Number:

(207) 786-6000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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