Revolutionaries and Romantics
Introduction 1
On Teaching, Presentation, and Method 2
Some Important Dates in Modern European History 5
The Birth of the Modern Era 6
Medieval Freedom to Baroque Absolutism 9
The Court of Louis XIV 15
Puritan and Anglican
Civil War, Restoration, Glorious Revolution 20
The Enlightenment and Jonathan Swift 23
Peter and Catherine the Great 25
The Great Earthquake at Lisbon 26
The French Revolution 27
Bastille Day 29
The Declaration of the Rights of Man 31
Jean Paul Marat 32
Napoleon Bonaparte 34
Progress, Invention, and Steam Power 43
Steel 46
The Factory City 47
Notes on Working Conditions in the Factories 50
The Romantic Movement 54
Ludwig Van Beethoven 54
William Wordsworth 60
William Blake 63
Goethe and Cognitive Imagination 68
Bibliography 71