Unit 2, Episode 2: Comparing the American Revolution and the French Revolution

01/08/2019 8 min
Unit 2, Episode 2: Comparing the American Revolution and the French Revolution

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Why did the American Revolution stop being a revolution and, in the words of historian Eugen Weber, the French Revolution by contrast became an avalanche of social change? Why was it that the American Revolution escaped the fate of all other revolutions, and did not become, like the French Revolution, a prelude to a violent … Continue reading Unit 2, Episode 2: Comparing the American Revolution and the French Revolution →