The Sacred French Revolution: Emile Durkheim, Lynn Hunt.

Lynn Avery Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her area of expertise is the French Revolution, but she is also well known for her work in European cultural history on such topics as gender.

The American Revolution also influenced the coming of the French Revolution. The Philosophes planted the seeds for the French Revolution. Their goals were to expose and destroy the inequalities of the ancient regime (old order). The political discontent of France was one of the causes of the Revolution.

Readings Responses must be handed in both to Turnitin and as a paper copy in class. For this Reading Response, write 2 pages minimum, based on the readings in Lynn Hunt, The French Revolution and Human Rights, pp. 80-83, 119-123, 129-139.

LYNN HUNT, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California at Los Angeles, received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

French Revolution --by William Doyle The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History --Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Lynn Hunt The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 --by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies --Edited by Gary Kates.

Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, Lynn Hunt, 2004. This is an intellectual examination of the process of revolution and Hunt is less interested in the origins and consequences of revolution; instead, she pursues a systematic discussion on the means by which revolutionary rhetoric propagates revolutionary themes.

The French Revolution was a period of time from 1789 to 1799 in France where there was political instability. It officially began on the 14th of July, 1789, when the Bastille, which was a symbol of the King’s harsh policies, was stormed. The King, Louis XVI, the Queen, Marie-Antoinette and about.

Get this from a library! The French Revolution and human rights: a brief documentary history. (Lynn Hunt;) -- This brief documentary history explores the issue of rights and citizenship that dominated Revolutionary France and helped define modern notions of civil rights. The rich selection of 38 primary.

The essays examine topics including the role of smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire.

The rich selection of 38 primary documents - many never before published in English allows students to read and analyze, firsthand, the intense debates and subsequent legislation engendered by the French Revolution. An extensive introductory essay discusses the controversies over citizenship and rights current in Enlightenment and Revolutionary.

Get this from a library! The French Revolution and human rights: a brief documentary history. (Lynn Hunt;) -- Contents. Foreword. Preface. PART ONE. Introduction. The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights. PART TWO. The Documents. 1. Defining Rights before 1789. Natural Law as Defined by.

FreeBookSummary.com. The Bill of Rights and Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen are based on the same principles of natural rights; therefore each document is similar in protecting the people's natural rights. However, despite their similarities, their differences are apparent due to the social situations in which they were adopted.