Description
Charlie Steen discusses the crucial time period of 1780-1804 in Paris. Bold new secular thinking was confronting an incompetent regime that continued to try to control politics and religion. Ideas that had been fostered in the Enlightenment became active forces advancing social freedom, political change, and demands for equality for women. The path forward was not smooth and there were many victims and failures, but the enduring triumph was the end of the Old Regime.
Charlie Steen’s classes place historical events in context with art, architecture, religion, and other cultural aspects of a period. He continues to teach western civilization at UNM part-time and is author of several books, including A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe. A graduate of UNM, he also holds a PhD in early modern European history from UCLA.