Enlightenment and revolution

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Enlightenment and revolution refers to the historical and intellectual relationship between Enlightenment ideas—such as reason, liberty, and equality—and the political upheavals they inspired, most notably the American and French Revolutions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical concept
intellectual movement
political philosophy topic
focusesOn relationship between ideas and political change
geographicScope Caribbean
Europe
Latin America
North America
hasKeyInfluence American Revolutionary era
surface form: American Revolution

Batavian Revolution
surface form: Dutch Patriot Revolt

French Revolution
Haitian Revolution
Latin American independence movements
surface form: Latin American wars of independence

1848 revolutions
surface form: revolutions of 1848
hasKeyThinker Adam Smith
Baron d'Holbach
Marquis de Condorcet
surface form: Condorcet

Denis Diderot
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke
Montesquieu
Thomas Paine
Voltaire
hasMainTheme Age of Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment

revolution
historicalPeriod 18th century
early 19th century
late 18th century
involvesConcept constitutionalism
equality
freedom of speech
freedom of the press
human rights
liberty
natural rights
popular sovereignty
reason
religious toleration
republicanism
separation of powers
social contract
relatedTo Age of Revolutions
Atlantic history
democratization
modernity
studiedInDiscipline history
intellectual history
legal history
philosophy
political science

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Enlightenment studies includesTopic Enlightenment and revolution