Sumários
The French Revolution
11 Dezembro 2024, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
The rise of citizenship.The French Revolution.
Social and economic causes: the prevailing feudal system with the three orders. The unbalanced fiscal system. Political participation. the third order role's in the breaking of the revolution.
The storming of rhe Bastille and the rise to power of a new government. The emergence of political parties - the Girondins and the Jacobins - the period of Terror and the Great Terror and the regicide.
The international impact.
Conference The Street and the City
6 Dezembro 2024, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
The class was replaced by attendance of the conference The Street and the City.
The American Revolution
4 Dezembro 2024, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
American Revolution: political and economic causes - the unformisation of local governance and the lack of representation in the British Patliament; the taxation issue.
From litigation to armed conflict. The rise of citizenship.
Reading: The Declaration of Independence, 1776
The creation and international impact of the independent United States of America.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcriptEmpires and imperialism
29 Novembro 2024, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
The building of the British empires.
The foundation of the thirteen colonies ib the seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth century. Religious causes and social-economic motivations. The various models of governance adopted - from puritanical leadership to democratic expetiments. The developement of rural and commercial activities. The slavery issue.
The relationship between the metropolis and the colonies.
Enlightenment: exploration of a concept.
27 Novembro 2024, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
Reading of Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?”.
The importance of the ibdividual pursuit of knowledge in the building of a colective mindset.
Freedom as the basis of progress.