HIST W4985 - Citizenship, Race, Gender and the Politics of Exclusion

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Columbia University in the City of New York

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This course explores the surge of increasingly radical political revolutions that crisscrossed the Atlantic beginning with Britain's Glorious Revolution, extending through the US and French Revolutions to the Haitian Revolution and efforts to establish an Irish Republic in the 1790s. These successive revolutions created the first modern republics and the first modern republican citizens. In the process they raised a host of questions: What rights could the modern citizen claim? Who could claim those rights? Do the rights of citizens war with human rights? As one revolution led to another the answers to these questions became progressively democratized and radicalized - until Caribbean slaves' bloody assertion of their freedom and independence (the Haitian Revolution) sent a shudder through Europe and the Americas leading to a retreat from the radical inclusionary vision initially espoused by both the American and the French Revolutions. Field(s): INTL

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.columbia.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 854-1754

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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