HY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Great Fear, Olympe De Gouges, Haitian Revolution
31 Jan 2018
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Mary wollstonecraft (1759-1797: a vindication of the rights of women (1792) William godwin (1756-1836: an enquiry concerning political justice (1793, did(cid:374)"t like (cid:373)arriage although he (cid:373)arries mary wollstonecraft. Mary shelley: author of frankenstein, daughter of mary and william. Long-term causes: enlightenment, absolutism, social and economic transformations. Short-term: bad harvests, tax and government crises, atlantic revolution, promise and problems (cid:862)li(cid:271)ert , galit , frater(cid:374)it (cid:863) America, dutch republic, austrian netherlands (belgium), and poland. Dutch: demand for democratic procedures: prussia and british intervene. Equitable representation of the nation: 3 estates, each estate counted equally, church: 100,000 clergy, 10% land, 10% tax collection, nobility: 400,000, 25% land, tax exemptions, the rest: 95% of population. Birth of the national assembly: tennis court oath. The great fear and the end of feudalism. Much of france migrates out of france between late july and early august 1789. Declaration of the rights of man and citizen: haitian revolution, olympe de gouges.
