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Traditions and Encounters Book Cover
Traditions and Encounters, 2/e
Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawai'i
Herbert F. Ziegler, University of Hawai'i
REVOLUTIONS AND NATIONAL STATES IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD

Internet Activities: French Revolution

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html



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Read these excerpts from the Olympe de Gouge' Declaration of the Rights of Women. Compare the text to the Declaration of the Rights of Men in your book (p. 815). In what ways are these arguments similar? How are they different? Are the pronouncements in these documents different in any way from the rhetoric of the American Revolution as seen in the Declaration of Independence? If so, how?








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