HIST 202 - ROYALTIES AND REVOLUTIONS: PRE-MODERN TO THE MODERN WORLDS

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University of Mount Saint Vincent

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Description:

This courseexplores the transition from the pre-modern era to the modern world through the history of France, fromseventeenth-century Absolutism through the Age of Enlightenment to the French Revolution. Topics include thecultural and political machinery of the Versailles monarchy; the increasingly vocal critiques of that system, fromVoltaire to the Philosophes; and the outbreak, course and aftermath of the French Revolution (1789-1815), whichgave birth to modern political discourse.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.mountsaintvincent.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 405-3200

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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