Unit 2: Age of Revolution (I): Independence of the U.S.A. and French Revolution

Here you can watch a presentation about the first part of our unit #2 "The Age of Revolution". More accurately, it is focused to the Independence of the U.S.A. and the French Revolution, including the Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte.


This second presentation is focused to the Restoration and the liberal revolutions in Europe in the first half of the 19th Century. At the end, it also talks about the national processes in Germany and Italy, among others.

Videos: the Seven Years War (1756-63) in the North American colonies

Here you can watch a couple of videos from the film "The last of the mohicans" (1992), an adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper´s famous novel.

Both videos are referred to the same historical event: the Seven Years War (1756-63) in the North American colonies

 

1) Skirmish among a British expeditionary force plus the colonial militia against Huron tribe

2) French assault against a British fort 

List of topics for a collective project

List of topics to work about the 18th Century:

1- The Family Compact (I): The Seven Years War
2- Malaspina Expedition
3- The "Motín de Esquilache"
4- Rococo art in Europe
5-The "Madrid de los Borbones"
6- The Family Compact (II):Spanish intervention in the independence of the U.S.A.: Bernardo de Gálvez
7- The "Revisionism against Utrecht" under Felipe V
8- "Jenkins´Ear War/ Guerra del Asiento": Blas de Lezo
9- Neoclassical art
10- Spanish America in the 18th Century