HIST 340 The United States and International Revolutions (Not offered 1998-99)

This course explores the ways in which the United States, as a country founded on revolution, has approached revolutions in other countries. It will begin with the diplomacy of the American Revolution, and then move on to how the Washington administration confronted the first two revolutions faced by the independent United States: those in France and Haiti. After examining the changing conception of issues such as revolutionary change and self-determination in nineteenth-century America, the course will concentrate on the cultural, intellectual, and diplomatic responses of the United States to some of the major revolutions of the twentieth century-the Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban, and Vietnamese.
Evaluation will be based on class participation, two essays during the course of the term, a research essay, and a self-scheduled final exam. Group A

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