164 The American Revolution in the Age of Revolutions

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

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🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The American Revolution took place within a larger period known today as the “Age of Revolutions.”

What does the Revolution look like when we place it within this larger context? Did it really help foment the many other failed and successful revolutions that took place during the period?

Over the next two episodes of the Doing History: To the Revolution series, we’ll explore answers to these questions by taking a closer look at how the American Revolution fit within the larger context of the Age of Revolutions.

The first part of our exploration will take us into the Caribbean. Laurent Dubois, a professor of history at Duke University and the author of four books about slavery and revolution in the French Caribbean, will serve as our guide.

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0:00.0	Support for Ben Franklin's World and the Doing History to the Revolution series comes from the
0:05.4	Omaha Institute and The Great Courses Plus.
0:10.0	Welcome to Ben Franklin's World.
0:12.0	Podcasts About Early American History with Liz
0:14.5	Kovart. The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can
0:19.6	affect the better future. Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted
0:26.2	and shaped our present day world.
0:28.7	And now here's your host, Liz Koval.
0:31.6	Hello and welcome to episode 164 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:36.5	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early
0:41.1	American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:45.2	The American Revolution took place within a larger period known as the Age of
0:48.6	revolutions, a period in which a number of revolutionary movements took place in Europe and in the Americas.
0:55.2	So what does the American Revolution look like within the larger context of this period?
1:00.6	Did it play any role in helping to foment the many other failed and successful revolutions that took place during this period?
1:07.0	In episode 163, we looked west from the revolution to see how it fit within the larger context of North American history.
1:15.0	Over the next two episodes, we're going to look East from the Revolution to see what it looked
1:19.9	like within the larger context of the Age of revolutions.
1:23.0	In this episode, we'll focus our attention on the Caribbean,
1:26.0	and in our next episode, we'll take our investigation to Europe.
1:30.0	Our guide for this exploration into the Caribbean during the age of revolutions is Laurent du Bois.
1:36.0	Laurent is a professor of history at Duke University and the author of six books, four of which
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