EUH 2021 Napoleon a Product of French Revolution
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Napoleon: Was Napoleon a product of the French Revolution or a unique phenomenon? You may find Chapters 19 and 20 in the main text book helpful! Also, check out the following primary source by a Madame de Remusat about life around Napoleon: * Primary Source Link: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/remusat-napoleon.asp (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.) *There’s also an interesting reading in the Sources book (pages 381-384) describing Napoleon in Egypt from an Egyptian point of view at that time (“The Chronicle of Abd al-Rahman al-Jabari”).
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Industrial Revolution: We’ve already considered whether movements like the Scientific Revolution & the Enlightenment deserve to be called revolutions. How about the Industrial Revolution? How much did it change Europe? You may find Chapter 21 helpful in the main text book, and be sure to look at the Sources book’s “Berlin Factory Rules” for a reminder of how brutal factory life could be!! Here are also two links to Primary Sources about Factory Life: Sadler Committee looks at the Life of the Industrial Worker: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/workers1.html (Links to an external site.) and Testimony from Ashley’s Mines Commission: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/ashley.html