Cultural Heritage II
The Old Regime and the Ameican
Revolution
Some Themes in the Culture of
Religion:
The Agricultural
Revolution:
Politics:
Enlightened Absolutism
Colonization:
Military:
Humanities
(Art, Music, Literature):
The Novel (a middle-class, and largely female, cultural institution):
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761): Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740)
Newspapers and Engraving
The “Public Sphere” emerges, along with liberal movements for reform.
William Hogarth (1697-1764), Gin Lane (1750), many others.
American Revolution (1776-1786):
National Character: British vs. American Culture (as reflected in painting, DISCUS?)
Ambition Thwarted (Benjamin Franklin, 1709-1790)
French and Indian War (Seven Years War, 1765-63, see Map p. 532)
Taxation
without Representation (Stamp Act, 1765;
See list of other grievances in “Declaration.”
Incident combined with Propaganda (Boston Massacre, 1770)
Alternative
Government (Continental Congress,
Revolutionary Manifesto (“Declaration,” 1776)
“The Declaration of
Influence of John Locke (revisited):
Place in History
Natural Law/Deism
Common Sense/Self Evidence
Equality
(Life,
Government by Consent of Governed
Revolutionary System but Prudent (build-in little revolutions)
Opposition to Despotism (even if “Enlightened”)
Slavery and the Problem of National Unity: