UNIT 17: Ideas Shape the World

How do ideas change the world? This unit traces the impact of European Enlightenment ideals in the American and Haitian revolutions and in South America. It also examines the revitalization of Islam expressed in the Wahhabi movement as it spread from the Arabian peninsula to Africa and Asia.

Sue Peabody speaks about the history of feminist thought as a "hidden history" within the history of ideas.
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