The ideas of this Scottish Enlightenment are exported to the colonies and fan the flames of revolution against the evils and cruelties of Empire.

The Panthéon stands as a monument to the great figures of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment ... in lively debates ...

These ideas are relatively new in the world. In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French ...

This course therefore sets out to explore the new ideas generated in these ... the intellectual origins of the French Revolution; intellectual encounters with the New World; the concept of a ...

“He shared the idea commonly held during the Age of Enlightenment, that the enlightened ... During this time, he expressed his horror at the instability that followed the French Revolution, according ...