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Harvard Summer School

June 24-August 7, 2013

HISTORY S-1253 Reform, Republic, Terror, and Empire: Revolution, 1787-1804

Syllabus Mon., Wed., 3:15-6:15 PM XXX Building, Room XXX L. Winnie CRN: 32724

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Books: P. M. Jones. The French Revolution, 1787-1804 2nd ed. Harlow, England: Longman, 2010). [ISBN: 9781408204382] T.C.W. Blanning, ed. The Rise and Fall of the French Revolution. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. [ISBN: 9780226056920] Jeremy D. Popkin. You are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. [ISBN: 9780521731942] Assignments: This course will require a 1-hour midterm, a 2-hour final examination, and two 5-6-page papers. Each class period will consist of lectures, a break, and discussion of the readings and films.

Monday, June 24 LECTURE 1: Introduction to the Course. Purpose of the Course. Course requirements. Themes of Revolution. Reform and Revolution. Revolutionary Studies. The American and the French Revolutions. French Schools of thought about the Revolution. The Old Regime.

Wednesday, June 26 LECTURE 2: The Old Regime. Government, Politics & Society. The Corporatist State. The Absolute Monarchy. Cities, Towns, Regions. Overseas Empire. READINGS: Jones: Chapter 1. Blanning: Van Kley: Church and State and the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution, pp. 27-64.

Monday, July 1 LECTURE 3: The Old Regime, part 2: Reform and Enlightenment. The Assembly of Notables. READINGS: Jones: Chapter 2. Blanning: Baker: French Political Thought at the Accession of Louis XVI, pp. 65-89; Gruder: A Mutation in Elite Political Culture, pp. 11147. Wednesday, July 3 LECTURE 4: The Estates General. The National Assembly. The Fall of the Bastille. The Night of August 4. READINGS: Jones: Chapter 3. Blanning: Markoff: Peasant Grievances and Peasant Insurrection, pp. 148-79; Furet: The Monarchy and Procedures for the Elections of 1789, pp. 180-96.

Monday, July 8 LECTURE 5: Changes from the Revolution: The October Days. The Constitutional Church. The Constitutional Monarchy. READINGS: FILM: Blanning: Patrick: The Second Estate in the Constituent Assembly, 1789-1791, pp. 236-265.

The Marseillaise (1938) Jean Renoir (1894-1979), 135 min.

Wednesday, July 10 LECTURE 6: The End of the Monarchy. The Night of August 10. The September Massacres. The Trial of the King. War and its Effects. READINGS: Jones: Chapter 4.

Monday, July 15 [PAPER 1 DUE] LECTURE 7: The First French Republic. Republican Changes. The Power of Paris. The Purge of the Girondins. READINGS: Jones: Chapter 5.

Wednesday, July 17 [MIDTERM EXAM] LECTURE 8: Film: Danton (1983) Andrej Wajda (1926- ) 136 min.

Monday, July 22 LECTURE 9: Federalism. War in the Vende. the Absolute State. Pattern of the Terror. READINGS:

The Nature of

Blanning: Ozuf: War and Terror in French Revolutionary Discourse, pp. 266-84.

Wednesday, July 24 LECTURE 10: Responses to the Revolution. DeChristianization. Thermidor. Counterrevolution and the Conservative Movement. READINGS: Blanning: Tackett: The Religious Factor in the Origins of the Counterrevolution, pp. 327-57; Edmonds: Federalism and Urban Revolt in France in 1793, pp. 385-416; Popkin: The Royalist Press in the Reign of Terror, pp. 417-32.

Monday, July 29 LECTURE 11: The French Revolution in the World. The Measure and Meaning of the Event. The Atlantic World. Colonial Case of Saint-Domingue Readings: Popkin, Chapters 1, 6 and 11.

The

Wednesday, July 31 [PAPER 2 DUE] LECTURE 12: Stability and Rulership. the Empire of 1804. READINGS:

The Directory.

To

Jones: Chapters 6 and 7. Blanning: Hunt, Lansky and Hanson: The Failure of the Liberal Republic in France, 1795-99, pp.468-93.

Monday, August 5 LECTURE 13: The French Revolution in Sum. Meanings of Modernity. Meaning of History. Legacy of the Revolution: Politics and Ideology. READINGS: Jones: Chapter 8. Blanning: Sewell: Ideologies and Social Revolutions: Reflections on the French Case, pp. 285-313.

FINAL EXAMINATION:

3:15 pm, XXXday, August X, 2013.