HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Counter-Revolutionary, Maximilien Robespierre, Atlantic World
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The larger context revolutionary change that were talking about is the atlantic. The revolutions are really spread out a little bit, the american in the beginning, 1776, ftench in 1789, haitian 1790 and spanish american in 1810 and 1820s. The import of these atlantic revolutions, one is that its really challenging and overturning many of the assumptions and foundations of the early modern world. Basic foundatrions that were made the early modern world quite different from today. Corporate bodies the idea that there were these specific groups and communities that you were bound to and apart of. For many people, membership in a coroporate body like a guild was the foundations of their work life, social life and identity. The great chain of being significantly undermines the social ineqauality through natural inequalities. Devine right the idea that the ruleris authorized to rule through god. Duty vs freedom abstract thin, very important through atlantic revolution, characterized through their types of freedom.
