HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bourgeoisie, Les Sans Culottes, Maximilien Robespierre
10 May 2016
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Lecture 4- the american & french revolution- political grounding of modern human rights. Americas: the french revolution created many of the political perspectives that would have a long influence in the next centuries from radical democracy to communism and socialism to fascism or extreme forms of nationalism. Further, these revolutions sought to establish governments on a non-religious basis. One colony was a crown colony" under direct royal rule while the other was a colony created by religious refugees. From the beginning, these colonies were allowed a large portion of self-rule. The advantages of the british colonies: the french vs. the english: at the same time as the british settlements in north america were created, the french sought to create a. They were centered in two main sites: acadia and quebec: yet the french colonies did not grow as quickly and as effectively as the british colonies.
