Good Knowledge of the English Language

The course will focus on the so-called Atlantic Revolutions, starting from the struggle for the Atlantic supremacy between France and United Kingdom and passing then to the American Revolution. The French Revolution and its relationships with the American constitutionalism allows then to explore the Haitian Revolution and the Bolivarian Revolutions in the Spanish America.

Good knowledge of the Age of the Democratic Revolutions

Lectures

Oral exam

L'esame non prevede differenze tra studenti frequentanti e non frequentanti.

The Age of the Democratic Revolutions; The Seven Years War; The American Revolution; The French Revolution; The Haitian Revolution; The Spanish America and the Bolivarian Revolutions

Per coloro che sostengono l'esame in lingua inglese il testo da cui preparare l'esame è:

For those who will take the exam in English language the book to study is:

Wim Kloooster, Revolutions in the Atlantic World. A Comparative History, New York University Press, New York 2009.

Per coloro che sostengono l'esame in lingua italiana, i testi da cui preparare l'esame sono:

For those who will take the exam in Italian language, the books to study are:

Obbligatorio per tutti (compulsory):

F. Furet, D. Richet, La Rivoluzione francese, vol. I, Laterza, 2011. 

più uno dei seguenti due libri, a scelta dello studente (together with one of these two books):

G. Abbattista, La rivoluzione americana, Laterza, 2017.

A. Taylor, Rivoluzioni americane. Una storia continentale, 1750-1804, Einaudi, 2017.