HS 315 - The French Revolution and Napoleon

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Examines the many causes of revolutionary activity in France at the end of the eighteenth century. This course focuses on the aspirations of urban elites as well as the peasants in the provinces in order to study the vision of a more representative government. It also covers the role of the Committee of Public Safety and the use of violent repression during the Terror as a preamble to the work of Napoleon Bonaparte as both reformer and general. GT