“Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” , is coined as the motto for the French people during the French Revolution. “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, was a driving force for the French during the French Revolution, but things were not the way the French people wished leading up to the French Revolution. My Historical Eye character William, a poor laborer of England, moved to Russia in the mid-1500s. After spending a great amount of time working in Russia, William has moved to France. In the year 1788, a year before the French Revolution was fully underway, William is embarking on a new journey in France, he and many other Europeans have already had to deal with many economic issues and problems with political power. William began his young adult life working in Russia, as a laborer. During the time William was in Russia, “Ivan the Terrible” took crown in 1533 and ruled until 1584. His time in Russia was after the Black Death and other various famines. The urban poor were hit very hard. The price of bread rose drastically, resulting in many being unable to eat because they could not afford the simplest of meals. By the 1700s, the just price system came into effect, making lives a bit easier for peasants. The just price became a wide spread, but it was too late for William and many other peasants. With the inability to gain food and money, William would depart from Russia to France. In the early 1600s, Russia also faced other problems, which made many Russian workers and citizens leaving Russia in order to start a new life. This is one of the major reasons why William would have left Russia. When William left Russia in the late 1600s or early 1700s, he worked as ship worker. Russia worked with many shipmasters because trade was a majo... ... middle of paper ... ...b. 2014. . Accessibility: 5 Reliability: 5 Note: This is accessible when one has internet access. The website is very easy to use and it is very reliable. Smith, Jillian R. "Shipbuilding and the English International Timber Trade." DigitalCommons @University of Nebraska - Lincoln (2009): 89-92. Accessibility: 5 Reliability: 5 Note: This is accessible when one has internet access. This article was accessed through a database. The database site was very easy to use and it is reliable. Weber, Eugen. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1976. Print. Accessibility: 5 Reliability: 5 Note: I had not heard of this author, but the publisher is very well know, which established credibility. I received a copy of this source through the Xavier Library
The citizens of France, inspired by the enlightenment, desired a government run by the people. Marquis de Lafayette wrote, “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights; social distinctions may be based only upon general usefulness” (de Lafayette 783). The French wanted to bring equality to all classes. The French revolution brought much more social change than the American revolution. Inspired by Lafayette’s declaration that, “no group, no individual may exercise authority not emanating expressly therefrom” (de Lafayette 783), the class system was destroyed. The revolutionaries were open to ending slavery, however women remained marginalized within the social structure of France. Similarly to the American revolution, the enlightenment ideas that drove the French revolution were not applied to society as a
The French Revolution was a tumultuous period, with France exhibiting a more fractured social structure than the United States. In response, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen proposed that “ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities, and of the corruption of governments” (National Assembly). This language indicates that the document, like its counterpart in the United States, sought to state the rights of men explicitly, so no doubt existed as to the nature of these rights. As France was the center of the Enlightenment, so the Enlightenment ideals of individuality and deism are clearly expressed in the language of the document. The National Assembly stated its case “in
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Nardo, Don. A. The French Revolution. San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1999. Print.
Peter was only ten years old when the Kremlin saw an open and violent struggle of power between the Naryshkins and Miloslavskys. He had witnessed killings including his mother’s former guardian. These vicious and unnecessary killings created a deep hatred in Peter for the streltsy and revulsion against the Kremlin and its politics. Peter had spent the next seven years in the village of Preobrazhenskoe and his mother whom now served as a head of state. Peter then used his own devices to familiarize himself which in fact were military matters and Western technology. His mother’s death in 1694 and Ivan the Terrible’s death in 1696 made Peter the sole ruler of Russia. (Gupta, 2006) Despite the fact that he had no formal or complete education, Peter was beyond his years physically and mentally. He gained knowledge from mostly foreigners when it came to technical skills who worked for Russian service that had lived nearby. He spent a majority of his time in the German quarter in Moscow learning from the scholars from the German University. (Hutchinson, 2011) A new revolt of the streltsy took place in...
French and Russian Revolutions Both the French and Russian revolutions occurred for two main reasons. Both of these revolutions were the direct result of bad leadership and a bad economy. These two reasons, along with other factors, caused both of these revolutions. Although they were both similar, they also had differences. A difference between the two is that the Russians had an unsuccessful "pre-revolution" in 1905.
Many economic systems are revealed in A Respectable Trade: Slavery, Feudalism, Self-Employment, and Capitalism. England in 1788 was entering a period of economic transition. Viewing this finite period in A Respectable Trade allows us, as economists, to dissect the different market systems prevalent during that time.
Philip was born in Gonesse on August 21st of 1165, his father Louis was determined to have Philip succeed him on the throne; as such Philip was raised with all the training necessary to become a king, he was taught in the ways of politics and war (Smedley 52). All was going to plan until Philip turned thirteen, on a royal hunt; he was separated from his companions and became lost in a forest. He spent hours attempting to find a way out, until he was exhausted by the cold and hunger. Eventually a peasant found him; but this event had caused him to become extremely ill, he contracted a dangerously high fever. His father Louis VII distraught by his son’s illness undertook a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Becket, in order to pray for his son’s recovery (Smedley 55). He was told that his son had finally recovered, and began his journey back to Paris. On the return journey he suffered a terrible stroke; this began the decline of his health, and eventually leads to his death (Smedley 55).
Trade became very big in England in the 19th Century due to the advancements of machines (Industrial). Steam Engines helped transport goods across the sea (Deane). The new jobs resulting from trade did not pay much. These jobs were meant to replace old labor and agriculture jobs but they paid much less. The citizens of England were not happy and many people protested this and a lot of men had trouble supporting their families (Deane).
Berneri, Giovanna. “The French Anarchist Movement.” The Anarchist Library. 28 Mar. 2011. Web. 26 Sept. 2013.
Censer, J. (2001). Liberty Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution. Chapter 6 Page 1. Retrieved May 16, 2014, from http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap6a.html
During the 17th and 18th centuries, mercantilism was the emerging economic policy through which the slave trade developed in Europe. In the Netherlands many historical events gave rise to a desire for domination of international trade. They were serious tradesman and were heavily involved in the profitable business of slavery. The Dutch, intelligent and self-ruling tradesmen took no time in displaying their dominance over rival countries, Portugal, England and Spain, in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. They established their international superiority in trade and impacted today’s society.
Herbert, Sydney. The Fall of Feudalism in France. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969. Print.
The Declaration declares that all French citizens must be guaranteed their natural born rights of “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.” In the Declaration, it disputes that there is a need for law that protects the citizens of Fra...