I cannot thank you enough for these videos! I am finishing up a paper on the French Revolution for my 1023 WOH class and you series on the FR is amazing. I am so happy that there are so many ways to learn about the subject rather than just my textbook & professor's PowerPoint. This really helped me understand what happened and now I can look deeper into what I need to write about. Because of you history isn't as bad as I thought it was! Thanks!!!!
Mr. Richey, I am a sophmore in high school taking AP Euro and I find your videos very nice and helpful. I have somewhat good rememberance skills, which helps me on unit tests (I've gotten highest score on every unit test we've taken), but sometimes I forget. I find your videos helpful in reminding and explaining. Thank you for the videos. Also, I'm in Quizbowl (the thing using NAQT questions) and in a match today I got the last toss-up question right in power to give my team the lead, and I remembered it thanks to your video on Peter the Great that I had just watched, seeing as I only recently found your channel. Thank you!
AWESOME! I'm very familiar with quiz bowl and NAQT. I coach the quiz bowl team at my school. Glad I'm helping you become both a better student and a better competitor!
An honor to have the endorsement of a philosophy prof on this video. I still have a great deal to learn about Rousseau, but that just puts me in the same boat as the guys who wrote this document!
Well. . . I think himself is not entirely consistent across his various works, so it makes sense that different people are going to pick up on different themes within them
Below is an expanding and (roughly) chronological list of links to European history videos (generally these feature lecturers who summarize material well and deliver it in an engaging way, such as Tom Richey and Paul Sargent, or great animators featuring maps that illustrate the passage of events geographically). The units correspond to those of AP EURO (see link all the way at the end). A few videos on a 'Crown and Church estates' series from Marty Rady (of University College London) are sprinkled in, which feature the importance of Central Europe, an area that is generally not covered sufficiently in most introductory courses. While most of these materials are appropriate for AP Euro students, undergraduates, particularly those who want a refresher before taking more advanced courses, and life-long learners may also benefit from them. These materials compare quite favorably with 'massive open online courses' (MOOCs), and often are better, IMHO. Combined with a reading of some primary sources (many now easily available online in translation) and viewings of art from the eras covered (many great works can be viewed in high-resolution online), one can acquire a fairly good understanding of the last 500 years or so of European history in a relatively short period. Anything comparable would simply not have been possible for most people 20 years ago, and probably not even 10 years ago. Kudos to the content providers! Unit 0 ruclips.net/video/5PMdpW4ATvI/видео.html, The Franks ruclips.net/video/gWidaBFrCL0/видео.html, Monarchs of France from the Franks to the Bonapartes ruclips.net/video/0PN9f1Sz3bc/видео.html, How did the Holy Roman Empire form (a short introduction featuring the emperors Charlemagne, Otto I and Frederick Barbarossa) ruclips.net/video/JtAWGX5k1UM/видео.html, Professor Rady's introduction to the Holy Roman Empire ruclips.net/video/0b76jyFUcU8/видео.html, feudalism ruclips.net/video/dBwqeO6LAu4/видео.html, chivalry ruclips.net/video/B2XGZ9guUI0/видео.html, Prelude [..to the Italian Wars and the Renaissance] ruclips.net/video/ayZJ5QE_lsY/видео.html, Italian Wars 2/10 - The Kingdom of Naples [continuation from the previous video] ruclips.net/video/TvlTLUc-c6E/видео.html, the Hanseatic League Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration ruclips.net/video/DcCojSiNAqc/видео.html, Renaissance and exploration (AP European History: Unit 1) ruclips.net/video/WhVFf5-qi1k/видео.html, The Portuguese Empire ruclips.net/video/1eWnEdmKUJc/видео.html, Why did the Portuguese Empire collapse? ruclips.net/video/lM_Wzt_Z228/видео.html, Why the Ottomans Never Colonized America? [they had maps of it, and named it 'Vilayet Antilla', but never succeeded in mounting an expedition] ruclips.net/video/t3dkXtW5AEU/видео.html, Why did the Dutch Empire Collapse ruclips.net/video/ABnWyOzdo-I/видео.html, Why did the Holy Roman Empire have no colonies? ruclips.net/video/er4CMhp6hqc/видео.html, European conquest of America ruclips.net/video/ZLyzQO4t-xs/видео.html, Italian City States ruclips.net/video/tIcmPM0zwQQ/видео.html, Italian renaissance ruclips.net/video/nWNZh913458/видео.html, Northern renaissance (Paul Sargent) ruclips.net/video/Xs1chMpM_nI/видео.html, Printing press ruclips.net/video/EuzAbE-kPkM/видео.html, Northern renaissance (John Green) ruclips.net/video/e8TnOUy4pK8/видео.html, A brief reading from Pizan's 'Book of the City of Ladies' mentioned in Green's Northern renaissance video ruclips.net/video/El1CYR5M8eo/видео.html, New Monarchies ruclips.net/video/PW24AvTo_hM/видео.html, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain ruclips.net/video/6-kqN_SniXc/видео.html, Humanism, Free Will, and the All Nighter ruclips.net/video/pdbuYbxMy8A/видео.html, Petrach ruclips.net/video/k9TxPMq_pY0/видео.html, Petrarch and the Sonnet ruclips.net/video/WSsRxMRUqvI/видео.html, Headbanger Humanism (August Burns Red and the Renaissance) ruclips.net/video/2Sl40C3JTLQ/видео.html, Pico della Mirandola ruclips.net/video/-EDxoHp4fJ0/видео.html, Renaissance Art ruclips.net/video/nlLQOUnOrZU/видео.html, Machiavelli ruclips.net/video/V5ku8Qg0OpU/видео.html, Jan van Eyck and Naturalism ruclips.net/video/TAGEus5FcrU/видео.html, The Book of the Courtier (Castiglione's Guide for the Renaissance Man) ruclips.net/video/1d1xGj0cx9A/видео.html, The Courtly Lady of the Renaissance (Book of the Courtier: Part 2) ruclips.net/video/MRYzW3BSj0I/видео.html, Charles V and the Holy Roman Empire: Crash Course World History (Not a Richey video) ruclips.net/video/LdFT-VarMFc/видео.html, the Sack of Rome in 1527 ruclips.net/video/Dh-hLauV_nM/видео.html, The Sack of Rome in 1527 [The Stand of the Swiss Guards] Unit 2: Age of Reformation ruclips.net/video/cXYyIBdBubE/видео.html, Why did the Reformation happen ruclips.net/video/Z4RNYQscm0w/видео.html, Causes of the Reformation ruclips.net/video/5UQTSNL_688/видео.html, What is Purgatory? (Catholic Doctrines) ruclips.net/video/a2irHpvLr7I/видео.html, Martin Luther's Reformation ruclips.net/video/Tx1mipXKz0U/видео.html, Professor Rady on the spread of Lutheranism ruclips.net/video/zCxZ63aC_8o/видео.html, Professor Rady on Lutheranism's appeal in Central Europe ruclips.net/video/bY9lSNfOWZY/видео.html, Martin Luther's Doctrines (Reformation Theology) ruclips.net/video/KZARuVXiH8k/видео.html, Calvinism (Introduction to John Calvin's Reformed Theology) ruclips.net/video/Xv3Yrs6s0vI/видео.html, Free Will and the Reformation [A wonderful exposition by Tom Richey on how the notion of free will was viewed differently by Renaissance humanists, Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists] ruclips.net/video/qfKDzbNEHDg/видео.html, Transubstantiation Explained [transubstantiation vs consubstantiation vs memorialism] ruclips.net/video/hcveOq9ce1c/видео.html, The Catholic Counter-Reformation ruclips.net/video/JxYzLCvPyfs/видео.html, The English Reformation (Henry VIII and the Church of England) ruclips.net/video/VAY2_wHVSHw/видео.html, The English Reformation (Part II: Edward VI, Bloody Mary, Elizabeth I) ruclips.net/video/DMBR-sTypE4/видео.html,The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Divorced [CoA], beheaded [AB], died [JS], divorced [AoC], beheaded [CH], survived [CP]) ruclips.net/video/BMmNKYrp-4U/видео.html, French Wars of Religion ruclips.net/video/L6xgTxWbQlI/видео.html, War of the three Henrys ruclips.net/video/B18zwAVO4q0/видео.html, Thirty-years War ruclips.net/video/J1kZNKmtl4k/видео.html, Mannerism ruclips.net/video/t7Wx21kTY9Y/видео.html, Parmigianino and El Greco (Mannerism: Part 2) ruclips.net/video/_tmha5Iw3b4/видео.html, Baroque Painting (Baroque Art: Part I)[Motion; emotion, turbulence, grandeur and contrast] ruclips.net/video/vhY8EZhKuGU/видео.html, Baroque Sculpture and Architecture (Baroque Art: Part II) Unit 3: Absolutism and Constitutionalism ruclips.net/video/5vQo3-Wn2Vw/видео.html, Absolutism and Constitutionalism ruclips.net/video/lZIgQGTCk8A/видео.html, The Divine Right of Kings (Bossuet, James I, Louis XIV) ruclips.net/video/ZlOdf_o7yu8/видео.html, Mercantilism: The Economics of Absolutism ruclips.net/video/IWQfb2vtxnA/видео.html, Louis XIV: Sun King of France ruclips.net/video/X235vpOToVU/видео.html, Versailles ruclips.net/video/yNCD9uTiAl0/видео.html, Wars of Louis XIV ruclips.net/video/BlXJk2AWg4w/видео.html, The War of the Spanish Succession (Wars of Louis XIV: Part II) ruclips.net/video/GhSmaRAOxus/видео.html,Historiography of Louis XIV's Wars ruclips.net/video/Q3toT5d6NKs/видео.html, The rise of Russia ruclips.net/video/wojI4sQO5M0/видео.html, Peter the Great: Tsar of Russia (Tom Richey) ruclips.net/video/FlKcX3OeJhw/видео.html, Peter the Great (John Merriman, Yale) ruclips.net/video/Ecu0TmcjRAw/видео.html, The Great Northern War ruclips.net/video/bOaT4giiNNg/видео.html, History of Kings and Queens of England ruclips.net/video/zKrK5iDz6ps/видео.html, James I and Stuart Absolutism (The Stuarts: Part One) ruclips.net/video/vWtnHWG48Bg/видео.html, Charles I and the English Civil War (The Stuarts: Part Two), ruclips.net/video/MPMaJGs6K-Q/видео.html, Charles II and the English Restoration (The Stuarts: Part Three) ruclips.net/video/xhHgAuyGm7o/видео.html, James II and the Glorious Revolution (The Stuarts: Part Four) ruclips.net/video/40UwxKSMMbs/видео.html, What is a Stadtholder? / Wat is een Stadhouder? (Dutch Republic - European History) ruclips.net/video/OKKGGwvy3eg/видео.html, Dutch Golden Age Painting (featuring Hals [1582 - 1666], Rembrandt [1606 - 1669], Vermeer [1632 - 1675], and others) ruclips.net/video/N2LVcu01QEU/видео.html, Hobbes vs Locke oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-202/lecture-3, Why Great Britain and the Netherlands didn't become as absolutist as other European powers (John Merriman, Yale) ruclips.net/video/mU2dhPlJWyY/видео.html, Commerce, Agriculture, and Slavery: Crash Course European History #8 Unit 4: Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments ruclips.net/video/y-XiG8S4o_A/видео.html, Copernicus and Galileo: A Scientific Revolution ruclips.net/video/l04HlEP-N60/видео.html, Cogito Ergo Sum (Introduction to René Descartes) - European Philosophers ruclips.net/video/WAdpPABoTzE/видео.html, Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (Bacon vs Aristotle - Scientific Revolution) ruclips.net/video/ii2upQ7UV8g/видео.html, What is Enlightenment? (Immanuel Kant) ruclips.net/video/drgsZc8Gjb8/видео.html, The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Compared ruclips.net/video/2qmkkQo5b9k/видео.html, The Values of the Enlightenment ruclips.net/video/eqZ69I6l-I4/видео.html, Newton and Locke: Foundations of the Enlightenment (The Philosophes: Thinkers of the Enlightenment) ruclips.net/video/_EzDyXrnKd8/видео.html, Voltaire ruclips.net/video/P2E67NR4RBk/видео.html, Diderot ruclips.net/video/kQdwvguLc9s/видео.html, Political Theory: Montesquieu and Rousseau (The Philosophes: Thinkers of the Enlightenment) ruclips.net/video/-fOTSolJskI/видео.html, Immanuel Kant and Adam Smith (The Philosophes: Thinkers of the Enlightenment) ruclips.net/video/a7ZOGHOcxX8/видео.html, Deism (Natural vs. Revealed Religion in the Enlightenment) ruclips.net/video/d2RNe9TG3Cw/видео.html, Voltaire on Religion (Philosophical Dictionary / French Enlightenment) ruclips.net/video/oBvZAPQVIro/видео.html, Enlightened Absolutism (Frederick the Great, Catherine the Great, Joseph II) ruclips.net/video/0y6VKs05QmI/видео.html, Pugachev's rebellion ruclips.net/video/zFh_-fNejzw/видео.html, Partitions of Poland ruclips.net/video/dumUTrqdyUA/видео.html, What was Prussia? ruclips.net/video/LW5NYnZ9X8w/видео.html, Prussian Absolutism ruclips.net/video/cE9JvCg_R4w/видео.html, Popular Culture and Consumerism ruclips.net/video/QAkW_i0bDpQ/видео.html, Population, Sustainability, and Malthus Unit 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century ruclips.net/video/Z2hWP3q5nXA/видео.html, French Revolution part 1 ruclips.net/video/9Q6GiPWR5dI/видео.html, The Estates General of 1789 (French Revolution: Part 2) ruclips.net/video/VW8ViYuNyd8/видео.html, The National Assembly (French Revolution: Part 3) ruclips.net/video/dtZVyhonjn8/видео.html, Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (French Revolution: Part 4)
I am a History student and now we are talking about the french revolution, the vision of Napoleon Bonaparte and about this declaration which became the most important foundation of Human Rights. Thank you sir for giving me not so hard situation like our professor did haha. Love from Philippines!
@tom Richey, you are really doing a great job.... accept my heartiest gratitude for sharing such information.. i am doing my M.phil in political science and teaching as well to the graduate students.. your videos are so insightful.. carry on.. you are not simply the tom Richey, you are "Tom Richey THE GREAT
dear Tom Richey , here again iam surprised with your reply.. i thought to show my heartiest compliments via comments.. and didnot think of getting reply... you are really a great. a man who is educated in real sense... teaching and sharing differ views to the needy people are the best way to serve humanity... you are again i would say Tom Richey a Great..
Thanks a bunch! I'm trying my best to occupy some middle ground between the people who scratch the surface and the professors who talk for an hour on some topic. I'm really stoked every time I hear that my attempt to balance brevity and detail is finding an audience!
I love these videos! I'm watching this because we are doing the Enlightenment and French Revl. next. We just finished absolutism, and tomorrow i have a multiple choice test on that so I will watch your videos to refresh my memory! Thanks Mr. Richey please keep doing these videos!! :)
Your timing couldn't be better. I'm going through the Revolution chronologically - most recently looking at the Tennis Court Oath, Bastille and the Great Fear - and just as I'm about to look into the Declaration this appears! Great video, I love the Rousseau/Jefferson perspective.
Glad I could time this so well, Hamish! I hope the other lectures in this series are helpful, too. I'm hoping to post my lecture on Women and the French Revolution sometime soon, as well. My brother got me to listen to Pelican yesterday - good stuff from what I've heard so far. Have you ever heard them?
Tom Richey I heard their most recent album when it was released, I can't say it stuck with me. I think I'm more geared towards instrumental music now though. I'll give it another listen.
I'm finding I like the older stuff more than the most recent stuff. They mellow out like just about every other band. My bro really likes this song called Ephemeral.
As I read the Declaration of the Rights of Man, I noticed a glaring difference between it and the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence declares the first right of all mankind is life. The Declaration of the Rights of Man doesn't mention life in any of its articles.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with that. Given that I've got a lot of viewers from Latin America, maybe I should start getting more familiar with Latin American history!
Awesome! Great info. Do you think you would do a video on the "Race For Africa?" Adair said it was the hardest/longest unit in his class. It be have to be multiple videos considering how long it is.
One of these days. As Mr. Adair says, it's not an easy topic to handle - when it comes to making an e-lecture, take the difficulty to teach it in a classroom setting and multiply it like 5x.
Hey Richey Sir! :) Thanks so much for your videos, they're super helpful! I have a request: could you do an FAQ (like the one about naval power) outlining internal conflicts in Britain (so, in essence, Britain vs. Scottland/Ireland and catholicism vs. protestantism), please? That would be really cool :) Stay awesome and greetings from Germany
Glad to hear these videos are helpful! This is a pretty big topic you've mentioned... If you'll remind me during Q&A season (I typically make those videos from mid-April to mid-May since I don't have much time to make formal videos with exams approaching) I may try to give it a shot. I do want to record and post my lecture on the Stuarts and the English Civil War. That lecture will highlight a key internal conflict in Britain (Catholics vs. Protestants as well as Protestants [Anglicans] vs. Protestants [Puritans]).
France gave America Lafayette during it's revolution and America gave France Thomas Paine during it's revolution. Supposedly, Lafayette loved his time in America so much, he named one of his children after George Washington and insisted everyone in his household speak English. It's interesting America and France ended up so different after being set up on similar paths. Mr. Richey, do you think America could have ended up with it's version of Napoleon after it's revolution? Some would argue that Washington became that Napoleon, due to his actions during the Whiskey Rebellion.
We also need to say that for Rousseau the contrat social is the way to provide real freedom which is the political freedom opposed to a "natural" freedom which means the oppression of people by the most violent part of the society. So Jefferson and Rousseau are not really opposed but quite complemetary, the nation being for Rousseau the only place where the man can be free.
From what I can gather from Rousseau, Locke's idea of a social contract is more of a modification of the state of nature than an end to it and Rousseau sets out to craft a social contract that will eliminate the remaining vestiges of the state of nature entirely. Is this statement anywhere near accurate in your view?
Tom Richey For Rousseau the state of nature is the ideal state cause it's the state of perfect freedom and happiness. This state was destroyed by the idea of property, once the property corrupted the man, this one can't be free and happy anymore. So the state of nature is destroyed anyway and Rousseau also says that we can't go back to this natural state. So for him the "contrat social" is a way to improve the actual society. Political freedom counterbalances what is lost anyway. So no, I don't think Rousseau wants to eliminate the remaining vestiges of the state of nature but rather improve his contemporary society. It's just my reading and of course I could be wrong. I also think that to understand the concept of "Nation" that was created during the revolution, the best author is certainly Sieyès (What is the third estate?) who is, for me, the one who really defined the Nation even if the philosophers of Lumières influenced the political views at the time. Sieyès is one of the main authors (along La Fayette and many others ) of the Déclaration des droits de l'Homme which was a collective work which also explain the different influences and sometimes contradictions of the text. Sieyès is less well-known (less flamboyant we could say) than Rousseau, Voltaire or Lafayette but french historians tends to think he had a major influence at the time.
Thanks for this explanation. As you can see, I'm constantly trying to wrap my brain around the French Revolution and Rousseau. This being s work of collective authorship without a primary author makes a lot of sense. I will keep trying to wrap my brain around Rousseau and at some point, I will do a lecture on him when I'm more comfortable with my knowledge of his work.
I think your understanding of the french revolution is already very good and you were very right to show the contradictions of this text. It was a very complex time and I think that no one can say he can understand everything about this revolution.
it's funny to link the french declaration Rights of the Man and the Citizen to jefferson... Actually, it's Jefferson who has been, like many of the Americans at the beginning of the independence war, impacted and influenced by the french philosophers of the "Lumières"... Rousseau is more considered here (in France) as a philosopher and a "doux réveur"...
Very nice as usual, but I have one doubt here. Jefferson and Rousseau are presented as if they were independent thinkers, which neglects the fact that Jefferson himself was heavily influenced by several European philosophers including Rousseau. Simplifications are unavoidable, but perhaps Locke vs Rousseau could have been more appropriate here.
Are you aware that most representatives of the National Assembly were either rich bougois or wayward nobles looking for power very view sans coulotte(Paris urban poor the majority of France) making the declaration more representative to the riche bougois class have more power much like in the American constitution so you could make the argument that the National Assembly was no different from the Le asemblé des notables
Yes, I am aware of this... Of course, when you look at the Reign of Terror, maybe it was a good thing that the sand culottes weren't around the whole time? I think from a liberal perspective, there is a key difference because the bourgeoisie did not have the legal privileges that the nobility had, but they certainly weren't inclusive of France as a whole. Then again, how many people truly represent the working class in legislative bodies today?
Spoken like a true acolyte of Karl Marx. The truth was that the French Revolution did the lovely lobbyist system that we all LOVE and ADORE. The rich bougois used their money to buy influence in the government and they created the economy of war profiteering. The difference between the National Assembly and the one that came after it was that the other one were a mix of the oppurtunists and the ones who believed in their own hype. Half of the Jacobins believed that they had to purge France of it's enemies and the other half wanted to make the government stronger so that they could make money and have power. It's basically like having Hitler and Clinton in charge of the government, one is apathetic to what the other one is doing and they both want absolute control so eventually blood is going to spill everywhere.
no offence to jefferson but whenever you mention classical liberalism i was expecting you to mention john stuart mill because i believe that a person who owned hundreds of slaves cannot be claimed to stand for classical liberalism . will that not paint a wrong picture of history ?
John Stuart Mill was not alive at this time - much less writing anything to influence the French Revolution. You have to be careful about confounding someone's beliefs with the economic realities that they encounter in life. For example, I would like to see a lot less government control over education, yet I teach in a public school because it pays more than private schools are able to pay due to the public sector crowding out the market. Jefferson referred to his situation (and by extension, the South) as having the "wolf by the ear." He wasn't proud of being a slaveholder and there's no doubt that he wrestled with that contradiction throughout his life.
I think that millennial sensitivity really clouds the achievements that men made to the past world. Jefferson was a slaveholder but he had a tremendous impact on neoliberalism and on democracy. It is like how you all attack Jackson for the Trail of Tears when he gave all men the right to vote despite them not owning property. It is their accomplishments that should be focused on not their personal lives.
Not sure you can let Jefferson, or his legacy, off so easy. Many of his contemporaries didn't own slaves and his friend (until Jefferson eventually cut off the relationship) Thomas Paine actively opposed slavery as inhumane and unjust (See Paine's "African Slavery In America" essay published in 1775). No "economic realities" compelled Paine, Jefferson or others to condone slavery and to hold slaves. Jefferson had the "individual liberty" to hold these views that denied individual liberty. And the contradiction is revealing. Jefferson's belief in and championing of "individual liberty" was predicated on a white supremacy that graded from viewing non-whites as inferior humans that could not be considered equal to whites to the view that African heritage people were chattel and had not absolutely no rights. Jefferson's views existed within this range. True that this contradiction ("universal" equal rights for white men) wasn't just Jefferson's contradiction; these views were ubiquitous in Colonial America. But they weren't universally held even among Jefferson's intellectual milieu; so one is not indulging in presentism to question his contradictions and flawed legacy. That's also why I am not sure your juxtaposition of the "classical liberalism" of Jefferson and "Radical democracy" of Rousseau is that revealing. Whether or not Rousseau's ideas were a proto-socialist is far more debatable then the fact that Jefferson's views were based on white supremacy.
It is amazing to consider the remarkable durability of the American constitution and government and compare that to France, where new governments and new constitutions have been a regular feature of political life. You point out the point/counterpoint nature of Jeffersonian liberalism versus Rousseauian insurgency, revolution or whatever you call it. Both seem regularly reflected between the two major political parties in the United States ---and they can change political parties from time to time as well! The Rousseauiam tendency to revolution has been updated by Marxism and Leninism and matured into the left wing of the Democratic Party. Jeffersonia liberalism often animates the Republican Party, although with Trump we see a whiff of the Rousseauian political activism, which naturally HORRIFIES those on the left! Leftists have been shouting for a President that reflects the American working class for 150 years or more. In 2016, they got just that with Trump's election, and were predictably HORRIFIED by what they had wanted all along! Life's little ironies!
Your modes of speech and explanation are honestly unbearable. I was just looking for a reading of this document. Take a public speaking course. Hire a speech coach. Get better.
6 years later and your series is still helping students like myself. Much love!
Mr. Richey, your videos are very helpful and help me pass my tests. You are a great teacher!
Thanks for the kind words! Glad I can help!
Mr Richey your video are very helpful to me help me in my Final exam .you are good teacher for me.I say you thank you
I cannot thank you enough for these videos! I am finishing up a paper on the French Revolution for my 1023 WOH class and you series on the FR is amazing. I am so happy that there are so many ways to learn about the subject rather than just my textbook & professor's PowerPoint. This really helped me understand what happened and now I can look deeper into what I need to write about. Because of you history isn't as bad as I thought it was!
Thanks!!!!
Glad I could help! This is an important and complicated topic.
FSU? Same!!!
Very succinct synopsis of the topic. Job well done, sir. Shared it with my students and I think it will help them.
Thanks for sharing my work with your students - the best compliment I can get from another teacher!
I'm starting a PGCE (postgraduate certificate in education). Your videos help/inspire 📹 how I may teach the subject. So brilliant, thank you 😊
Thanks for your videos! At the evening school (Hungary) we just rush over topics,and these really help clear things more up.
I home school a high school student and we are finding your videos very helpful and informative! Thanks so much for your great work!
Mr. Richey, I am a sophmore in high school taking AP Euro and I find your videos very nice and helpful. I have somewhat good rememberance skills, which helps me on unit tests (I've gotten highest score on every unit test we've taken), but sometimes I forget. I find your videos helpful in reminding and explaining. Thank you for the videos.
Also, I'm in Quizbowl (the thing using NAQT questions) and in a match today I got the last toss-up question right in power to give my team the lead, and I remembered it thanks to your video on Peter the Great that I had just watched, seeing as I only recently found your channel. Thank you!
AWESOME! I'm very familiar with quiz bowl and NAQT. I coach the quiz bowl team at my school. Glad I'm helping you become both a better student and a better competitor!
ap exam tomorrow and im binge-watching all your videos
We got this
Really like the opening music @0:00-0:02, wasn't expecting that in this type of video, hah.
I love this French Revolution series :) Going over this makes me want to re-read The Tale of Two Cities.
Can you write my history term paper due Friday
I am a history major and thoroughly love your videos!
Excellent stuff here!
An honor to have the endorsement of a philosophy prof on this video. I still have a great deal to learn about Rousseau, but that just puts me in the same boat as the guys who wrote this document!
Well. . . I think himself is not entirely consistent across his various works, so it makes sense that different people are going to pick up on different themes within them
thank you so much i live in lebanon and i have a test on them tomorrow and this video really helped me. great work :D
Below is an expanding and (roughly) chronological list of links to European history videos (generally these feature lecturers who summarize material well and deliver it in an engaging way, such as Tom Richey and Paul Sargent, or great animators featuring maps that illustrate the passage of events geographically). The units correspond to those of AP EURO (see link all the way at the end). A few videos on a 'Crown and Church estates' series from Marty Rady (of University College London) are sprinkled in, which feature the importance of Central Europe, an area that is generally not covered sufficiently in most introductory courses. While most of these materials are appropriate for AP Euro students, undergraduates, particularly those who want a refresher before taking more advanced courses, and life-long learners may also benefit from them. These materials compare quite favorably with 'massive open online courses' (MOOCs), and often are better, IMHO. Combined with a reading of some primary sources (many now easily available online in translation) and viewings of art from the eras covered (many great works can be viewed in high-resolution online), one can acquire a fairly good understanding of the last 500 years or so of European history in a relatively short period. Anything comparable would simply not have been possible for most people 20 years ago, and probably not even 10 years ago. Kudos to the content providers!
Unit 0
ruclips.net/video/5PMdpW4ATvI/видео.html, The Franks
ruclips.net/video/gWidaBFrCL0/видео.html, Monarchs of France from the Franks to the Bonapartes
ruclips.net/video/0PN9f1Sz3bc/видео.html, How did the Holy Roman Empire form (a short introduction featuring the emperors Charlemagne, Otto I and Frederick Barbarossa)
ruclips.net/video/JtAWGX5k1UM/видео.html, Professor Rady's introduction to the Holy Roman Empire
ruclips.net/video/0b76jyFUcU8/видео.html, feudalism
ruclips.net/video/dBwqeO6LAu4/видео.html, chivalry
ruclips.net/video/B2XGZ9guUI0/видео.html, Prelude [..to the Italian Wars and the Renaissance]
ruclips.net/video/ayZJ5QE_lsY/видео.html, Italian Wars 2/10 - The Kingdom of Naples [continuation from the previous video]
ruclips.net/video/TvlTLUc-c6E/видео.html, the Hanseatic League
Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration
ruclips.net/video/DcCojSiNAqc/видео.html, Renaissance and exploration (AP European History: Unit 1)
ruclips.net/video/WhVFf5-qi1k/видео.html, The Portuguese Empire
ruclips.net/video/1eWnEdmKUJc/видео.html, Why did the Portuguese Empire collapse?
ruclips.net/video/lM_Wzt_Z228/видео.html, Why the Ottomans Never Colonized America? [they had maps of it, and named it 'Vilayet Antilla', but never succeeded in mounting an expedition]
ruclips.net/video/t3dkXtW5AEU/видео.html, Why did the Dutch Empire Collapse
ruclips.net/video/ABnWyOzdo-I/видео.html, Why did the Holy Roman Empire have no colonies?
ruclips.net/video/er4CMhp6hqc/видео.html, European conquest of America
ruclips.net/video/ZLyzQO4t-xs/видео.html, Italian City States
ruclips.net/video/tIcmPM0zwQQ/видео.html, Italian renaissance
ruclips.net/video/nWNZh913458/видео.html, Northern renaissance (Paul Sargent)
ruclips.net/video/Xs1chMpM_nI/видео.html, Printing press
ruclips.net/video/EuzAbE-kPkM/видео.html, Northern renaissance (John Green)
ruclips.net/video/e8TnOUy4pK8/видео.html, A brief reading from Pizan's 'Book of the City of Ladies' mentioned in Green's Northern renaissance video
ruclips.net/video/El1CYR5M8eo/видео.html, New Monarchies
ruclips.net/video/PW24AvTo_hM/видео.html, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
ruclips.net/video/6-kqN_SniXc/видео.html, Humanism, Free Will, and the All Nighter
ruclips.net/video/pdbuYbxMy8A/видео.html, Petrach
ruclips.net/video/k9TxPMq_pY0/видео.html, Petrarch and the Sonnet
ruclips.net/video/WSsRxMRUqvI/видео.html, Headbanger Humanism (August Burns Red and the Renaissance)
ruclips.net/video/2Sl40C3JTLQ/видео.html, Pico della Mirandola
ruclips.net/video/-EDxoHp4fJ0/видео.html, Renaissance Art
ruclips.net/video/nlLQOUnOrZU/видео.html, Machiavelli
ruclips.net/video/V5ku8Qg0OpU/видео.html, Jan van Eyck and Naturalism
ruclips.net/video/TAGEus5FcrU/видео.html, The Book of the Courtier (Castiglione's Guide for the Renaissance Man)
ruclips.net/video/1d1xGj0cx9A/видео.html, The Courtly Lady of the Renaissance (Book of the Courtier: Part 2)
ruclips.net/video/MRYzW3BSj0I/видео.html, Charles V and the Holy Roman Empire: Crash Course World History (Not a Richey video)
ruclips.net/video/LdFT-VarMFc/видео.html, the Sack of Rome in 1527
ruclips.net/video/Dh-hLauV_nM/видео.html, The Sack of Rome in 1527 [The Stand of the Swiss Guards]
Unit 2: Age of Reformation
ruclips.net/video/cXYyIBdBubE/видео.html, Why did the Reformation happen
ruclips.net/video/Z4RNYQscm0w/видео.html, Causes of the Reformation
ruclips.net/video/5UQTSNL_688/видео.html, What is Purgatory? (Catholic Doctrines)
ruclips.net/video/a2irHpvLr7I/видео.html, Martin Luther's Reformation
ruclips.net/video/Tx1mipXKz0U/видео.html, Professor Rady on the spread of Lutheranism
ruclips.net/video/zCxZ63aC_8o/видео.html, Professor Rady on Lutheranism's appeal in Central Europe
ruclips.net/video/bY9lSNfOWZY/видео.html, Martin Luther's Doctrines (Reformation Theology)
ruclips.net/video/KZARuVXiH8k/видео.html, Calvinism (Introduction to John Calvin's Reformed Theology)
ruclips.net/video/Xv3Yrs6s0vI/видео.html, Free Will and the Reformation [A wonderful exposition by Tom Richey on how the notion of free will was viewed differently by Renaissance humanists, Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists]
ruclips.net/video/qfKDzbNEHDg/видео.html, Transubstantiation Explained [transubstantiation vs consubstantiation vs memorialism]
ruclips.net/video/hcveOq9ce1c/видео.html, The Catholic Counter-Reformation
ruclips.net/video/JxYzLCvPyfs/видео.html, The English Reformation (Henry VIII and the Church of England)
ruclips.net/video/VAY2_wHVSHw/видео.html, The English Reformation (Part II: Edward VI, Bloody Mary, Elizabeth I)
ruclips.net/video/DMBR-sTypE4/видео.html,The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Divorced [CoA], beheaded [AB], died [JS], divorced [AoC], beheaded [CH], survived [CP])
ruclips.net/video/BMmNKYrp-4U/видео.html, French Wars of Religion
ruclips.net/video/L6xgTxWbQlI/видео.html, War of the three Henrys
ruclips.net/video/B18zwAVO4q0/видео.html, Thirty-years War
ruclips.net/video/J1kZNKmtl4k/видео.html, Mannerism
ruclips.net/video/t7Wx21kTY9Y/видео.html, Parmigianino and El Greco (Mannerism: Part 2)
ruclips.net/video/_tmha5Iw3b4/видео.html, Baroque Painting (Baroque Art: Part I)[Motion; emotion, turbulence, grandeur and contrast]
ruclips.net/video/vhY8EZhKuGU/видео.html, Baroque Sculpture and Architecture (Baroque Art: Part II)
Unit 3: Absolutism and Constitutionalism
ruclips.net/video/5vQo3-Wn2Vw/видео.html, Absolutism and Constitutionalism
ruclips.net/video/lZIgQGTCk8A/видео.html, The Divine Right of Kings (Bossuet, James I, Louis XIV)
ruclips.net/video/ZlOdf_o7yu8/видео.html, Mercantilism: The Economics of Absolutism
ruclips.net/video/IWQfb2vtxnA/видео.html, Louis XIV: Sun King of France
ruclips.net/video/X235vpOToVU/видео.html, Versailles
ruclips.net/video/yNCD9uTiAl0/видео.html, Wars of Louis XIV
ruclips.net/video/BlXJk2AWg4w/видео.html, The War of the Spanish Succession (Wars of Louis XIV: Part II)
ruclips.net/video/GhSmaRAOxus/видео.html,Historiography of Louis XIV's Wars
ruclips.net/video/Q3toT5d6NKs/видео.html, The rise of Russia
ruclips.net/video/wojI4sQO5M0/видео.html, Peter the Great: Tsar of Russia (Tom Richey)
ruclips.net/video/FlKcX3OeJhw/видео.html, Peter the Great (John Merriman, Yale)
ruclips.net/video/Ecu0TmcjRAw/видео.html, The Great Northern War
ruclips.net/video/bOaT4giiNNg/видео.html, History of Kings and Queens of England
ruclips.net/video/zKrK5iDz6ps/видео.html, James I and Stuart Absolutism (The Stuarts: Part One)
ruclips.net/video/vWtnHWG48Bg/видео.html, Charles I and the English Civil War (The Stuarts: Part Two),
ruclips.net/video/MPMaJGs6K-Q/видео.html, Charles II and the English Restoration (The Stuarts: Part Three)
ruclips.net/video/xhHgAuyGm7o/видео.html, James II and the Glorious Revolution (The Stuarts: Part Four)
ruclips.net/video/40UwxKSMMbs/видео.html, What is a Stadtholder? / Wat is een Stadhouder? (Dutch Republic - European History)
ruclips.net/video/OKKGGwvy3eg/видео.html, Dutch Golden Age Painting (featuring Hals [1582 - 1666], Rembrandt [1606 - 1669], Vermeer [1632 - 1675], and others)
ruclips.net/video/N2LVcu01QEU/видео.html, Hobbes vs Locke
oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-202/lecture-3, Why Great Britain and the Netherlands didn't become as absolutist as other European powers (John Merriman, Yale)
ruclips.net/video/mU2dhPlJWyY/видео.html, Commerce, Agriculture, and Slavery: Crash Course European History #8
Unit 4: Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments
ruclips.net/video/y-XiG8S4o_A/видео.html, Copernicus and Galileo: A Scientific Revolution
ruclips.net/video/l04HlEP-N60/видео.html, Cogito Ergo Sum (Introduction to René Descartes) - European Philosophers
ruclips.net/video/WAdpPABoTzE/видео.html, Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (Bacon vs Aristotle - Scientific Revolution)
ruclips.net/video/ii2upQ7UV8g/видео.html, What is Enlightenment? (Immanuel Kant)
ruclips.net/video/drgsZc8Gjb8/видео.html, The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Compared
ruclips.net/video/2qmkkQo5b9k/видео.html, The Values of the Enlightenment
ruclips.net/video/eqZ69I6l-I4/видео.html, Newton and Locke: Foundations of the Enlightenment (The Philosophes: Thinkers of the Enlightenment)
ruclips.net/video/_EzDyXrnKd8/видео.html, Voltaire
ruclips.net/video/P2E67NR4RBk/видео.html, Diderot
ruclips.net/video/kQdwvguLc9s/видео.html, Political Theory: Montesquieu and Rousseau (The Philosophes: Thinkers of the Enlightenment)
ruclips.net/video/-fOTSolJskI/видео.html, Immanuel Kant and Adam Smith (The Philosophes: Thinkers of the Enlightenment)
ruclips.net/video/a7ZOGHOcxX8/видео.html, Deism (Natural vs. Revealed Religion in the Enlightenment)
ruclips.net/video/d2RNe9TG3Cw/видео.html, Voltaire on Religion (Philosophical Dictionary / French Enlightenment)
ruclips.net/video/oBvZAPQVIro/видео.html, Enlightened Absolutism (Frederick the Great, Catherine the Great, Joseph II)
ruclips.net/video/0y6VKs05QmI/видео.html, Pugachev's rebellion
ruclips.net/video/zFh_-fNejzw/видео.html, Partitions of Poland
ruclips.net/video/dumUTrqdyUA/видео.html, What was Prussia?
ruclips.net/video/LW5NYnZ9X8w/видео.html, Prussian Absolutism
ruclips.net/video/cE9JvCg_R4w/видео.html, Popular Culture and Consumerism
ruclips.net/video/QAkW_i0bDpQ/видео.html, Population, Sustainability, and Malthus
Unit 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century
ruclips.net/video/Z2hWP3q5nXA/видео.html, French Revolution part 1
ruclips.net/video/9Q6GiPWR5dI/видео.html, The Estates General of 1789 (French Revolution: Part 2)
ruclips.net/video/VW8ViYuNyd8/видео.html, The National Assembly (French Revolution: Part 3)
ruclips.net/video/dtZVyhonjn8/видео.html, Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (French Revolution: Part 4)
Thank you!
you are out here saving lives man!
great vid always find them enjoyable cheers from Australia
Thanks! Always great to hear when my videos are doing well Down Under!
sean sullivan thanks from Germany as well!!
I am a History student and now we are talking about the french revolution, the vision of Napoleon Bonaparte and about this declaration which became the most important foundation of Human Rights. Thank you sir for giving me not so hard situation like our professor did haha. Love from Philippines!
@tom Richey, you are really doing a great job.... accept my heartiest gratitude for sharing such information.. i am doing my M.phil in political science and teaching as well to the graduate students.. your videos are so insightful.. carry on.. you are not simply the tom Richey, you are "Tom Richey THE GREAT
Thanks a bunch! I'm extremely flattered when someone tells me that my videos are helpful at the graduate level.
dear Tom Richey , here again iam surprised with your reply.. i thought to show my heartiest compliments via comments.. and didnot think of getting reply... you are really a great. a man who is educated in real sense... teaching and sharing differ views to the needy people are the best way to serve humanity... you are again i would say Tom Richey a Great..
Thank you for posting these videos.
Your videos are very helpful. I am trying to have some knowledge about history. Thanks
Mr. Richey: I love your series.
Im kind of a history nerd and I really enjoy your delivery of its details.
Many thanks.
Thanks a bunch! I'm trying my best to occupy some middle ground between the people who scratch the surface and the professors who talk for an hour on some topic. I'm really stoked every time I hear that my attempt to balance brevity and detail is finding an audience!
I love these videos! I'm watching this because we are doing the Enlightenment and French Revl. next. We just finished absolutism, and tomorrow i have a multiple choice test on that so I will watch your videos to refresh my memory! Thanks Mr. Richey please keep doing these videos!! :)
As long as people like you are watching my videos, I'll keep producing them! What TH level are you in Clash of Clans? I'm TH 9 right now.
I am also Townhall 9, almost maxed out my king is going to level 15 and my queen is level 15. What clan are you in? Tom Richey
also I'm from Louisiana too :)
Hogs of War - probably not a unique name. My BK is like lvl 7 and Queen at lvl 2. Just upgraded to th 9 in the last month or so.
What's your clan tag or username?
Your timing couldn't be better. I'm going through the Revolution chronologically - most recently looking at the Tennis Court Oath, Bastille and the Great Fear - and just as I'm about to look into the Declaration this appears! Great video, I love the Rousseau/Jefferson perspective.
Glad I could time this so well, Hamish! I hope the other lectures in this series are helpful, too. I'm hoping to post my lecture on Women and the French Revolution sometime soon, as well.
My brother got me to listen to Pelican yesterday - good stuff from what I've heard so far. Have you ever heard them?
Tom Richey I heard their most recent album when it was released, I can't say it stuck with me. I think I'm more geared towards instrumental music now though. I'll give it another listen.
I'm finding I like the older stuff more than the most recent stuff. They mellow out like just about every other band. My bro really likes this song called Ephemeral.
Awesome stuff. I watch your videos even though i'm not a history student. I just watch them because i love history :D
Thanks sir! This is really helping me with my law & politics exam study! :)
Great stuff here! Thank you so much. Mr. Richey, could you update some apeuro videos on WWI and WWII before the ap exam this year?
This is really helpful!!
Thank you Man
You're quite welcome!
Thank you
I lover your content, there’s something quite charming and childish about it
hey tom... love from india... thank you.. for making this series.. its helping me.
thanks, I enjoyed this greatly.
great vidéos, you helped me a lot. thanks from Argentina
As I read the Declaration of the Rights of Man, I noticed a glaring difference between it and the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence declares the first right of all mankind is life. The Declaration of the Rights of Man doesn't mention life in any of its articles.
wow thank you so much i learn well with you it sticks
I am an indian and i watch all your videos . Thanxx for helping ..
This guy is awesome!!!!
this video helped me a lotttt thank uuuuuu soooooo much and keep uploading such videos in this subject social science
this video is very helpful
enjoying the video...hope its helpful for my exam on thursday
can we hav a video on thinkers and philosopher of french revolution
@12:35 around here you mention a reign of terror, what does it refer to? I am just learning about this document.
Hello Tom! Could you do a lecture on the Grenadian revolution? Thanks!
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with that. Given that I've got a lot of viewers from Latin America, maybe I should start getting more familiar with Latin American history!
Good job
For your Unit Study Guides can you please make a video reviewing the answers?
Awesome! Great info. Do you think you would do a video on the "Race For Africa?" Adair said it was the hardest/longest unit in his class. It be have to be multiple videos considering how long it is.
One of these days. As Mr. Adair says, it's not an easy topic to handle - when it comes to making an e-lecture, take the difficulty to teach it in a classroom setting and multiply it like 5x.
Understandable.
When you're cramming for French rev but still can't get away from real life
lol
Thank you, thank you, liked ur "study buddy" video, well done.
THANKS! If you ever need a "study buddy," you know who to call!
Hey Richey Sir! :)
Thanks so much for your videos, they're super helpful!
I have a request: could you do an FAQ (like the one about naval power) outlining internal conflicts in Britain (so, in essence, Britain vs. Scottland/Ireland and catholicism vs. protestantism), please?
That would be really cool :)
Stay awesome and greetings from Germany
Glad to hear these videos are helpful! This is a pretty big topic you've mentioned... If you'll remind me during Q&A season (I typically make those videos from mid-April to mid-May since I don't have much time to make formal videos with exams approaching) I may try to give it a shot. I do want to record and post my lecture on the Stuarts and the English Civil War. That lecture will highlight a key internal conflict in Britain (Catholics vs. Protestants as well as Protestants [Anglicans] vs. Protestants [Puritans]).
Thank You :) Good Luck on grading those exams!
France gave America Lafayette during it's revolution and America gave France Thomas Paine during it's revolution. Supposedly, Lafayette loved his time in America so much, he named one of his children after George Washington and insisted everyone in his household speak English. It's interesting America and France ended up so different after being set up on similar paths.
Mr. Richey, do you think America could have ended up with it's version of Napoleon after it's revolution? Some would argue that Washington became that Napoleon, due to his actions during the Whiskey Rebellion.
Job well done!
Yay thank you so much!
Thanks!
This is awesome, thanks a lot
We also need to say that for Rousseau the contrat social is the way to provide real freedom which is the political freedom opposed to a "natural" freedom which means the oppression of people by the most violent part of the society.
So Jefferson and Rousseau are not really opposed but quite complemetary, the nation being for Rousseau the only place where the man can be free.
From what I can gather from Rousseau, Locke's idea of a social contract is more of a modification of the state of nature than an end to it and Rousseau sets out to craft a social contract that will eliminate the remaining vestiges of the state of nature entirely. Is this statement anywhere near accurate in your view?
Tom Richey
For Rousseau the state of nature is the ideal state cause it's the state of perfect freedom and happiness.
This state was destroyed by the idea of property, once the property corrupted the man, this one can't be free and happy anymore. So the state of nature is destroyed anyway and Rousseau also says that we can't go back to this natural state.
So for him the "contrat social" is a way to improve the actual society. Political freedom counterbalances what is lost anyway.
So no, I don't think Rousseau wants to eliminate the remaining vestiges of the state of nature but rather improve his contemporary society. It's just my reading and of course I could be wrong.
I also think that to understand the concept of "Nation" that was created during the revolution, the best author is certainly Sieyès (What is the third estate?) who is, for me, the one who really defined the Nation even if the philosophers of Lumières influenced the political views at the time.
Sieyès is one of the main authors (along La Fayette and many others ) of the Déclaration des droits de l'Homme which was a collective work which also explain the different influences and sometimes contradictions of the text.
Sieyès is less well-known (less flamboyant we could say) than Rousseau, Voltaire or Lafayette but french historians tends to think he had a major influence at the time.
Thanks for this explanation. As you can see, I'm constantly trying to wrap my brain around the French Revolution and Rousseau. This being s work of collective authorship without a primary author makes a lot of sense. I will keep trying to wrap my brain around Rousseau and at some point, I will do a lecture on him when I'm more comfortable with my knowledge of his work.
I think your understanding of the french revolution is already very good and you were very right to show the contradictions of this text. It was a very complex time and I think that no one can say he can understand everything about this revolution.
You are doing God's work, Tom.
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I think the idea "Power resides in nation" belongs to John Locke, not Rousseur because Rousseur supports direct power to people
it's funny to link the french declaration Rights of the Man and the Citizen to jefferson... Actually, it's Jefferson who has been, like many of the Americans at the beginning of the independence war, impacted and influenced by the french philosophers of the "Lumières"... Rousseau is more considered here (in France) as a philosopher and a "doux réveur"...
Very nice as usual, but I have one doubt here. Jefferson and Rousseau are presented as if they were independent thinkers, which neglects the fact that Jefferson himself was heavily influenced by several European philosophers including Rousseau. Simplifications are unavoidable, but perhaps Locke vs Rousseau could have been more appropriate here.
I’m trying to get my ap euro class to watch your videos
do you know who was Sarah Stickney Ellis, characteristics???
Can someone pls tell me what the original purpose of the Declaration of rights of Man was? Thanks
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En tant que francais, pour nous la ddhc est la chose la plus sacrée qui existe.
Are you aware that most representatives of the National Assembly were either rich bougois or wayward nobles looking for power very view sans coulotte(Paris urban poor the majority of France) making the declaration more representative to the riche bougois class have more power much like in the American constitution so you could make the argument that the National Assembly was no different from the Le asemblé des notables
Yes, I am aware of this... Of course, when you look at the Reign of Terror, maybe it was a good thing that the sand culottes weren't around the whole time? I think from a liberal perspective, there is a key difference because the bourgeoisie did not have the legal privileges that the nobility had, but they certainly weren't inclusive of France as a whole. Then again, how many people truly represent the working class in legislative bodies today?
Spoken like a true acolyte of Karl Marx. The truth was that the French Revolution did the lovely lobbyist system that we all LOVE and ADORE. The rich bougois used their money to buy influence in the government and they created the economy of war profiteering. The difference between the National Assembly and the one that came after it was that the other one were a mix of the oppurtunists and the ones who believed in their own hype. Half of the Jacobins believed that they had to purge France of it's enemies and the other half wanted to make the government stronger so that they could make money and have power. It's basically like having Hitler and Clinton in charge of the government, one is apathetic to what the other one is doing and they both want absolute control so eventually blood is going to spill everywhere.
Shout out to all of my classical liberals in these crazy times!
Has Thomas Paine been obfuscated from history?
Mr.Richey would you call the French Revolution a pre and proto communist state
Possibly during the Reign of Terror but for the most part (excluding the Reign of Terror), no.
What about Lafayette?
no offence to jefferson but whenever you mention classical liberalism i was expecting you to mention john stuart mill because i believe that a person who owned hundreds of slaves cannot be claimed to stand for classical liberalism . will that not paint a wrong picture of history ?
John Stuart Mill was not alive at this time - much less writing anything to influence the French Revolution. You have to be careful about confounding someone's beliefs with the economic realities that they encounter in life. For example, I would like to see a lot less government control over education, yet I teach in a public school because it pays more than private schools are able to pay due to the public sector crowding out the market. Jefferson referred to his situation (and by extension, the South) as having the "wolf by the ear." He wasn't proud of being a slaveholder and there's no doubt that he wrestled with that contradiction throughout his life.
I think that millennial sensitivity really clouds the achievements that men made to the past world. Jefferson was a slaveholder but he had a tremendous impact on neoliberalism and on democracy. It is like how you all attack Jackson for the Trail of Tears when he gave all men the right to vote despite them not owning property. It is their accomplishments that should be focused on not their personal lives.
Not sure you can let Jefferson, or his legacy, off so easy. Many of his contemporaries didn't own slaves and his friend (until Jefferson eventually cut off the relationship) Thomas Paine actively opposed slavery as inhumane and unjust (See Paine's "African Slavery In America" essay published in 1775). No "economic realities" compelled Paine, Jefferson or others to condone slavery and to hold slaves. Jefferson had the "individual liberty" to hold these views that denied individual liberty. And the contradiction is revealing. Jefferson's belief in and championing of "individual liberty" was predicated on a white supremacy that graded from viewing non-whites as inferior humans that could not be considered equal to whites to the view that African heritage people were chattel and had not absolutely no rights. Jefferson's views existed within this range. True that this contradiction ("universal" equal rights for white men) wasn't just Jefferson's contradiction; these views were ubiquitous in Colonial America. But they weren't universally held even among Jefferson's intellectual milieu; so one is not indulging in presentism to question his contradictions and flawed legacy. That's also why I am not sure your juxtaposition of the "classical liberalism" of Jefferson and "Radical democracy" of Rousseau is that revealing. Whether or not Rousseau's ideas were a proto-socialist is far more debatable then the fact that Jefferson's views were based on white supremacy.
Now THIS is public service.
I really like this series but if we are going to call Rousseau proto socialist then we should call Jefferson protolibertarian.
Well many people are sovereign in the United States hence why some people have sovereign immunity.
southern matt damon
This speech makes me laugh, everyone can build his own history. Every cultural man have two country ,his own and France ( Thomas Jefferson 1743/1826 )
the cup really is disturbing
Illumunati confirmex
It is amazing to consider the remarkable durability of the American constitution and government and compare that to France, where new governments and new constitutions have been a regular feature of political life.
You point out the point/counterpoint nature of Jeffersonian liberalism versus Rousseauian insurgency, revolution or whatever you call it. Both seem regularly reflected between the two major political parties in the United States ---and they can change political parties from time to time as well!
The Rousseauiam tendency to revolution has been updated by Marxism and Leninism and matured into the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Jeffersonia liberalism often animates the Republican Party, although with Trump we see a whiff of the Rousseauian political activism, which naturally HORRIFIES those on the left!
Leftists have been shouting for a President that reflects the American working class for 150 years or more. In 2016, they got just that with Trump's election, and were predictably HORRIFIED by what they had wanted all along!
Life's little ironies!
theo von think he slick
Your modes of speech and explanation are honestly unbearable. I was just looking for a reading of this document. Take a public speaking course. Hire a speech coach. Get better.
this really helped with my test today! :/)
How so, Dee who is done with Euro? :/?
Test tomorrow!
So this is when the world went upside-down.
LOL seeing if you would notice!
I always notice.