The 1700s and early 1800s were an age of Enlightenment and revolutions

The 1700s and early 1800s were an age of Enlightenment and revolutions in Europe and
the Americas that helped usher in the modern world. Like other eras in history, this time
period also witnessed significant violence. How, in your view, did changing forms and
ideas about violence act to shape societies, and the individuals within them, in new
ways during that era (the 1700s and early 1800s)?

Basic requirements for completion of the assignment:

1. Between 1200 and 1500 typed words
2. Your essay should make explicit reference to most, if not all, of the readings
   and other material you have been assigned or we have discussed together
   during Part 1 of the course. This material includes not only readings assigned on
   the syllabus, but in-class lectures, documents we read together in class, and in-
   class discussions with your classmates. Although your essay does not necessarily
   have to refer to every piece of assigned material, it should at the very least
   reflect your awareness and understanding of the content and arguments of all of
   it. It would be a bad idea, for example, to make a claim in your essay that is flatly
   contradicted by an assigned reading that your essay ignores. More specifically,
   if you do not make explicit use of more than one third of the assigned sources
   from Unit 1, your grade on the essay will be no higher than a C+, and if you do
   not make explicit use of more than one half of the assigned sources from Unit
   1, your grade on the essay will be no higher than a B+. To make this more
   concrete, below is a list of the various sources (in abbreviated form) assigned in
   Part 1 from which your essay should be drawn:
   a. Michel Foucault, excerpt of Discipline and Punish
   b. Michael Meranze, “A Criminal Is Being Beaten”
   c. Hunt and Censer, assigned online chapters (6 & 7) from Liberty, Equality,
   Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
   d. Dubois and Garrigus, Part I of Slave Revolution in the Caribbean
   e. The Pillnitz Declaration (in-class primary source)
   f. In-class documents by Robespierre
   g. Primary source documents included in Part 2 of the Dubois and Garrigus
   books (a few of which we’ll look at together in class)
   h. In-class lecture on “The Complex Legacy of the Enlightenment”
   i. In-class lecture on “Causes of the French Revolution”
   j. In-class discussions with classmates