Freedom, Rights & Revolution

evolution of the state system, 1648-1815

Lecture notes

Week 9 - Teutsches Staats-Recht
Week 7 - Critique & Crisis
Week 6 - Glorious Revolution
Wks 4 & 5 - The Restoration & The Church of England
Week 3 - Assimilation
Week 2 - Thirty Years War & Absolutism
Week 1 - French Wars of Religion

Maps & Images

USSR 1989 (U.S. view)
Ukraine boundaries
Europe 1570 - Ortelius
Europe 1599 - Sessa
Europe 1630 - Blaeu
Europe 1648 - Sanson
Reformation ~1560
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (1572)
Europa, sive Celtica vetera
Holy Roman Empire, 1648 (large)
Europe, end 1697

Afghanistan
Yugoslavia
Switzerland

image archive

Texts
P. Laslett, "Introduction" (1960, 1967, 1988) to Locke, Two Treatises of Gov't (1689) - Part 1 + Part 2 (.pdf - two files)
M. Carhart, "Anthropology & Statistik in the GHM" (.pdf)
ResistanceTheory.pdf
I. Kant, What is Enlightenment? (1784) .pdf