2. Overview
• c. 1670 – 1815
• Political Use of Space
• 18th Century Culture
• The American
Revolution
• The French Revolution
• Napoleon
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1808
3. Space and Splendor
• Political use of space
• Importance of the
Monarch
• Topkapi Palace
– Ottomans
– 15th – 19th centuries
– Complex
– Harem
– Imperial Council Hall
• Versailles
• Isfahan
• Forbidden City
• Taj Mahal
24. The Enlightenment
• Beliefs
– Universalism
• The Philosophes
– John Locke
• Tabula Rasa
• Social Contract
– Diderot
– Thomas Jefferson
– Thomas Day
– Benjamin Franklin
– Adam Smith
• Laissez-faire
– Voltaire
26. The New British Empire
• The Seven Years’ War
• British Taxes vs.
Americans
• Proclamation Line of
1763
• Stamp Act, 1765
• Tea Act, 1773
– British East India
Company
• Virtual Representation
The Oracle, John Dixon, 1774
28. The American Revolution
• Colonial reaction:
– Boston Massacre, 1770
– The Nonimportation
Movement
– Boston Tea Party, 1773
• April 1775, Lexington and
Concord
• Lord Dunmore’s
Proclamation, 1776
• What went wrong?
– Mercantilism vs. Free Trade
– British Empire
• Benign Neglect
– Republican Government
• Social Contract
“The Patriotic Ladies of Edenton”
29. American Independence
• Continental Congress,
1774
• Declaration of
Independence, July 4,
1776
• Fall 1777, Battle of
Saratoga
• Foreign Intervention
– Benjamin Franklin
• October 1781, Yorktown
• Treaty of Paris, 1783
31. The American Constitution
• Articles of
Confederation
• Shays’ Rebellion, 1786
– Paper currency & Bonds
• Constitutional
Convention, 1787
– Popular sovereignty
– Republican government
– Free trade
– Free markets
– Free labor
32. The Old Order in France
• Economic Crisis
– Environment
– Wars
– Fiscal system
– Ideas
• Louis XVI (1754-1793, r.1774-
1792)
– Marie Antoinette
• Reform ministers
• Estates-General, May 1789
33. The Calling of the Estates, May 1789
• Estates-General
– 1st Estate: the Church
– 2nd Estate: the Nobility
– 3rd Estate: the
Commoners
• June 17, 3rd Estate votes
itself the National
Assembly
• June 20, Tennis Court
Oath
34. Storming of the
Bastille,
July 14, 1789
• King at first supports National
Assembly, but hedges bets
• Fires reform ministers
• Calls up soldiers
• Peasants restless in Paris and
elsewhere
• Bastille
• Prison, symbol
• Weapons
• Nat’l Assembly saved
36. Timeline of the Revolution
• June 1789 – Sept 1791, National Assembly
• Oct 1791 – Sept 1792, Legislative Assembly
• Sept 1792 – July 1794, National Convention
– April 1793 – July 1794, Committee of Public Safety
• Aug 1794 – Oct 1795, Thermidorian Reaction
• Oct 1795 – Nov 1799, The Directory
• Napoleon
– Nov 1799, Consulate/Triumvirate, “First Consul”
– 1802, Consul for life
– 1804, Emperor
37. Aftermath
• Declaration of the Rights
of Man and the Citizen,
August 26
• Olympe de Gouges
• Women’s March on
Versailles, October 5
• June 1791, Royal Family
flees
• New Constitution, Sept
1791
• War, April 1792
• King arrested, Aug 1792
38. The French Republic
• Jacobins
• Louis XIV
• Maximilien Robespierre
(1758-1794)
• Committee of Public Safety
• The Reign of Terror, 1793-
1794
• Guillotine: 10,000s killed
– 26 killed/day in Paris,
officially
• Marat (1743-1793)
David, Death of Marat, 1793
39. The Republic of Virtue
• Liberty, Equality and
Fraternity
– “Citizen”
• Scientific Government
• Dechristianization
• Cult of the Supreme Being
• New Calendar
43. Rise of Napoleon
• Robespierre arrested, July
27, 1794
• France’s Revolutionary
Army
• Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821)
– Paris, 1795
– Italy, 1796
– Egypt, 1798-1799
• Mamluks
• July 21, 1798, Battle of the
Pyramids
Young Napoleon, Baron Gros, 1801
44. Invasion of Egypt, 1798-1799
The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC
Watteau, Battle of the Pyramids,
1799
45. Napoleon’s Reign
• 1804, Emperor
• Accomplishments
– Pope
– Napoleonic Code
– Grand Army
• 1812, Invasion of Russia
• 1814, Exiled to Elba
• 1815, Battle of
Waterloo
• Final exile to St. Helena
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1808
49. Other Revolutions
• China
– White Lotus Rebellion (1796-
1804)
• Ottoman Empire
– Selim III (r. 1789-1807)
– Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839)
– Egypt
• Muhammad Ali (r. 1801 -1848)
– Greek War for Indp (1821-1832)
• Latin America
– Mexico (1821)
– South America
– Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)
• Gran Colombia (1819-1830)
– Caudillos
– Brazil (1822)
• Emperor Pedro I (r. 1822–1834)
52. Intro to the Industrial Revolution
• “A process by which new methods of
production and new sources of power enabled
a given worker to produce an ever greater
quantity of goods and through which a largely
agricultural society transformed itself into one
composed primarily of producers of
manufactured goods and providers of
services.”
– Walter Arnstein
• Importance
54. Components of the Industrial Rev.
• Technology
• Division of Labor
• Capital
• Employees
• Raw Materials
• Markets
• Infrastructure
• Government
• Rights
• Other regions?
57. Textile Factories
• The Factory System
– Adam Smith, Division of
Labor
• Spinning Jenny (1764)
– James Hargreaves
• Water Frame (1767)
– Richard Arkwright
• Power Loom (1785)
– Edmund Cartwright
• Cotton Gin (1793)
– Eli Whitney
Mule spinning at Swainson & Birley Mill,
Preston, 1834
61. “I think God has forsaken this place. I
believe I have seen Hell and it's white,
it's snow-white.”
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
62.
63. Industrial Society
• Developments
– Coke, 1709
– James Watt, 1765
– 1st steam powered train, 1815
• Limited-Liability Joint-Stock
Company
• Bourgeoisie/Middle Class
• Working Class
– Free Labor
– Regulated Day
– Discipline
• Reform
– Luddites
– Unions
– British Mines Act, 1842
Report of the Children’s
Employment Commission in Great
Britain , 1842
The Palace of Versailles. Louis XIV spent untold sums of money on the construction of a new palace at
Versailles. As is evident in this exterior view, the palace was enormous, being more than a quarter of a
mile long. In addition to being the royal residence, it also housed the members of the king’s government
and served as home for thousands of French nobles. As the largest royal residence in Europe, Versailles
impressed foreigners and became a source of envy for other rulers.
Interior of Versailles: The Hall of Mirrors. Pictured here is the exquisite Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
Located on the second floor, the hall overlooks the park below. Three hundred and fifty-seven mirrors
were placed on the wall opposite the windows to create an illusion of even greater width. Careful planning
went into every detail of the interior decoration. Even the doorknobs were specially designed to reflect the
magnificence of Versailles. This photo shows the Hall of Mirrors after the restoration work that was
completed in June 2007, a project that took three years, cost 12 million euros (more than $16 million), and
included the restoration of the Bohemian crystal chandeliers.
The Growth in Cotton Production and Consumption Whitney’s gin (left) made possible the mass
cultivation of upland, or short-stable, cotton, which was unprofitable to raise when its seeds had to
be laboriously removed by hand. As cotton production pushed farther south and west, taking slavery
with it, it provisioned a growing northern textile industry. Calico, or patterned cotton cloth, was hand produced
by wood-block printing with colored dyes, as shown here at right. The availability of plentiful,
cheap cloth vastly expanded women’s wardrobes.