Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791: Reacting to the Past - Softcover

Carnes, Mark C.; Kates, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321332296 ISBN 13: 9780321332295

Publisher: Pearson, 2005

Synopsis

Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791 plunges students into the intellectual political and ideological currents that surged through revolutionary Paris in the summer of 1791.

 

Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.   Students are leaders of major factions within the National Assembly (and in the streets outside) as it struggles to create a constitution amidst internal chaos and threats of foreign invasion.

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Review

Reacting to the Past is the most absorbing and engaging teaching I have ever done. . . . Students engage each other with a passion I have rarely seen in a classroom. --Elizabeth Robertson, Drake University

Combines the student instinct for competitive gaming with the academic values of critical thinking and persuasive speaking.--Craig Caldwell, Appalachian State University

It is one of the best ways I know of engaging students in great books and significant moments in history.--Larry Carver, University of Texas at Austin

It's the most rewarding teaching you can do, because students will take ownership of their learning.--Jeffrey Hyson, Saint Joseph's University

Reacting to the Past is the most absorbing and engaging teaching I have ever done. . . . Students engage each other with a passion I have rarely seen in a classroom. --Elizabeth Robertson, Drake University

About the Author

Gary Kates is professor of history at Pomona College. He is the author of The Cercle Social, the Girondins, and the French Revolution and the editor of The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies. He has served on the editorial board of French Historical Studies. In 1995 the Knight-Ridder News Service named his Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Sexual Masquerade and Political Intrigue as one of the top nonfiction books of that year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321332296
• ISBN 13: 9780321332295
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192