Understanding and Teaching the Age of Revolutions (The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History) - Hardcover

 
9780299311902: Understanding and Teaching the Age of Revolutions (The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0299311902 ISBN 13: 9780299311902
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017

Synopsis

To learn about the ""Age of Revolutions"" in Europe and the Americas is to engage with the emergence of the modern world. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, nations were founded, old empires collapsed, and new ones arose. Struggles for emancipation―whether from royal authority, colonial rule, slavery, or patriarchy―inspired both hopes and fears. This book, designed for university and secondary school teachers, provides up-to-date content and perspectives, classroom-tested techniques, innovative ideas, and an exciting variety of pathways to introduce students to this complex era of history.

The volume includes chapters on sources and methods for stimulating student debate and learning, including Tom Paine's Common Sense, the Haitian Declaration of Independence, and other key documents; role-playing games; visual arts and culture; and music, including opera and popular songs. Other chapters delve into specific themes, including revolution and riot, revolutionary terror, enlightenment, gender, slavery, nationalism, environment and climate, and the roles of politically excluded groups. Collectively, the contributions ensure a broad Atlantic scope, discussing the revolutions in Britain's North American colonies, Haiti, and Latin America, and European revolutions including France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

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About the Author

Ben Marsh is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Kent and the author of Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony, winner of the Malcolm Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award.

Mike Rapport is a reader in modern European history at the University of Glasgow and the author of several books, including 1848: Year of Revolution and The Unruly City: Paris, London, and New York in the Age of Revolution.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0299311902
ISBN 13 
9780299311902
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
352
Editor
Marsh Ben, Rapport Mike