HIST 102 UMGC Relationship between Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Essay
HIST 102 UMGC Relationship between Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Essay
Enlightenment and Revolution Assignment Guidelines
What was the relationship of the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment, and how did the
Enlightenment influence the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions? Please answer these
questions in an essay of between approximately 1,000 and 1,250 words in length.
Be sure to support your claims with evidence from class readings. All evidence from readings
should be cited in footnotes.
You should draw on evidence from the following sources:
Christopher Hobson, The Rise of Democracy: Revolution, War and Transformations in
International Politics since 1776 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015).
[The chapter “The Crucible of Democracy: The French Revolution” came from this book].
Franklin W. Knight, “The Haitian Revolution,” The American Historical Review 105: 1 (Feb. 2000):
103–115.
Colin Mackerras, “Global History, the Role of Scientific Discovery, and the ‘Needham Question:’
Europe and China in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries,” in Global History and New
Polycentric Approaches: Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System, ed. Manuel
Pérez–García and Lúcio de Sousa (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 21–34.
Sugita Gempaku, “A Dutch Anatomy Lesson in Japan, 1771,” in Kevin Reilly, Worlds of History: A
Comparative Reader, Volume Two: Since 1400, 5th ed. (Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s,
2013), 173–176.
Bonnie G. Smith, Marc Van De Mieroop, Richard Von Glahn, and Kris Lane, Crossroads and
Cultures: A History of the World’s Peoples (Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012).
[The chapter “Atlantic Revolutions and the World, 1750–1830” came from this book].
Robert W. Strayer, Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources (Boston, New York:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013).
[The chapter “A New Way of Thinking: The Birth of Modern Science” came from this book].
