THE GRADUATE CENTER PH.D. PROGRAM IN HISTORY FALL 2011

Professor Helena Rosenblatt History 71500-The French Revolution Monday 4:15-6:15 p.m. 3 credits Hrosenblatt@gc.cuny.edu THE GRADUATE CENTER PH.D. PROGRAM IN HISTORY FALL 2011 Course Description: This course is an in-depth introduction to the French Revolution and the debates surrounding it. We will privilege political/cultural/intellectual perspectives, reading some of the most innovative and thought-provoking work on a number of key topics, such as the causes of the Revolution and its radicalization; the nature and legacies of the revolutionary wars and Terror; the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau s influence; the Revolution s performance in the areas of gender and race; and the ideologies it engendered. Course Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to *Read texts more critically and effectively *Identify and summarize key ideas in texts in an articulate and persuasive manner, verbally and in writing *Demonstrate a command of the narrative and major events of the French Revolution * Display a grasp of some of the main scholarly debates surrounding the French Revolution Course Requirements: *Regular and intelligent class participation demonstrating thorough reading of all assigned materials: 30% *One-page analytical summaries of the weekly readings and two interesting discussion questions for every class: 30% (Summaries must be handed in to me at the beginning of class; questions must be emailed to me and the class by 8 a.m. on Monday) *A 15-20 page historiographical paper on a topic chosen in consultation with me. Topics must be decided and approved by Nov. 7; final paper submitted by Dec. 12. No late papers will be accepted. 40% PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A DRAFT SYLLABUS THE READINGS AND TOPICS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR REVISION. THE FINAL VERSION WILL BE HANDED OUT IN CLASS ON THE FIRST DAY. SURVEYS OF THE REVOLUTION: Jeremy Popkin, A Short History of the French Revolution, 5 th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall, 2009, $34.44 ISBN-10: 9780205693573

William Doyle, The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press, 2001 $7.56 ISBN-10: 9780192853967 William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution Oxford University Press, 2003, $15.55 ISBN-10 019925298X Colin Jones, The Great Nation. France from Louis XV to Napoleon. London: Penguin, 2002. $12.00 ISBN 0-14-013093-4 Donald Sutherland, The French Revolution and Empire: the Quest for a Civic Order Malden, M.A.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003, $49.95, ISBN-10 0631233636 Aug 29 Introduction Sept 5 Labor Day--No Class Sept 12 François Furet and Revisionism François Furet, The French Revolution is Over and The Revolutionary Catechism, in Interpreting the French Revolution. Transl. Elborg Forster, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, $35.34, ISBN 0-521-28049-4 Lynn Hunt, Forgetting and Remembering: The French Revolution Then and Now, The American Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 4 (Oct., 1995), pp. 1119-1135. Jack Censer, The Coming of a New Interpretation of the French Revolution? Journal of Social History, vol. 21, no 2 (Winter, 1987), pp. 295-309. Vivian Gruder, Whither Revisionism? Political Perspectives on the Ancien Régime, French Historical Studies, vol. 20, no 2 (Spring 1997), pp. 245-285. Tony Judt, François Furet (1927-1997), New York Review of Books 44 (Nov. 6, 1997), pp. 41-32. Claude Langlois, The French Revolution and Revisionism The History Teacher, vol. 23, no 4 (Aug., 1990), pp. 395-404. François Furet s Interpretation of the French Revolution, forum published in French Historical Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Autumn, 1990). Isser Woloch, Review: On the Latent Illiberalism of the French Revolution, The American Historical Review, Vol. 95, No. 5 (Dec., 1990), pp. 1452-1470. Sept 19 New Approaches Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution New York: Vintage, 1989 $1977, ISBN 0-679-72610-1

François Furet, Revolutionary France 1770-1880 Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 $39.34 ISBN- 10: 0631198083 Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. $34.95 ISBN 0-231-12882-7 (Other surveys listed above) Sept 26 Marie Antoinette Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion. What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006. $11.56, ISBN-10: 0312427344 Vivian Gruder, The Question of Marie-Antoinette: The Queen and Public Opinion before the Revolution, French History 16 (2002): pp. 269-98. Lynn Hunt, The Many Bodies of Marie Antoinette, in Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen, ed. Dena Goodman, New York: Routledge, 2003. $23.95 ISBN 0-41593- 395-1. Sarah Maza, The Diamond Necklace Affair Revisited (1785-1786): The Case of the Missing Queen, in Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen, ed. Dena Goodman, New York : Routledge, 2003. $23.95 ISBN 0-41593-395-1. Thomas Kaiser, Who s Afraid of Marie Antoinette? Diplomacy, Austrophobia, and the Queen, French History 14 (2000): pp. 241 71. Thomas Kaiser, From the Austrian Committee to the Foreign Plot: Marie Antoinette, Austrophobia, and the Terror, French Historical Studies 26, no. 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 579-617 Jacques Revel, Marie Antoinette, in A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Eds. François Furet and Mona Ozouf, transl Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 1989. Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen, ed. Dena Goodman, New York : Routledge, 2003. $23.95 ISBN 0-41593-395-1. Chantal Thomas, The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette, trans. Julie Rose, New York: Zone Books, 1999. Oct 3 The Liberal Phase

Timothy Tackett, Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture, 1789-1790. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. $34.23. ISBN: 9780271028880 Timothy Tackett, The Constituent Assembly and the Terror, in The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, Vol. 4 The Terror, ed. Keith Michael Baker (Oxford: Pergamon, 1994), pp. 39-54. Barry Shapiro, Revolutionary Justice in Paris, 1789-1790. $53.00. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0521530547 Oct 10 Columbus Day No Class Oct 17 The King and Radicalization: Timothy Tackett, When the King took Flight Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2003. $18.63. ISBN 0-674-01054-X David Jordan, The King s Trial. Louis XVI vs. The French Revolution. Berkeley, C.A.: University of California Press, 2004. $23.01. ISBN: 0-520-23697-1 Michael Walzer, Regicide and Revolution. Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. $31.20 ISBN: 0-231-08259-2 John Hardman, Louis XVI New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. $26.00. ISBN: 0300060777 Oct. 24 The Terror and OR Dan Edelstein, The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010 ISBN-10: 0226184390 $24.20 Keith Baker, The Idea of a Declaration of Rights, in Dale Van Kley, ed., The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of rights of 1789 (Stanford, Calif. 1994), pp. 154-196. R.R. Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005, $26.20, ISBN-10: 0691121877 David Andress, The Terror. The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France New

York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. $ 26, ISBN 0-374-27341-3 Donald Greer, The Incidence of the Terror during the French Revolution: A Statistical Interpretation. Cambridge, Mass., 1935. ISBN: 0844612111 Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. $21.34. ISBN: 9780195158939. Mona Ozouf, War and Terror in French Revolutionary Discourse (1792-1794), The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 579-597 D. M. G. Sutherland, Murder in Aubagne: Lynching, Law, and Justice during the French Revolution. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $95.00 ISBN 978-0-521-88304-7. Timothy Tackett, "Conspiracy Obsession in a Time of Revolution: French Elites and the Origins of the Terror, 1789-1792," American Historical Review 105 (2000): 691-713. Oct. 31 Regeneration Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution. Berkeley, C.A.: University of California Press, 1984 $20.34 ISBN-10: 0520241568. Lynn Hunt, Pornography and the French Revolution, in The Invention of Pornography, 1500-1800: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity. Ed. Lynn Hunt New York: Zone Books, 1993. Laura Mason, Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Politics, 1789-1799 Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornelle University Press, 1996. $196.51, ISBN-10: 0801432332 Mona Ozouf, Festivals and the French Revolution Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 1991. $32.50. ISBN-10: 0674298845 Mona Ozouf, Regeneration, in A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Eds. François Furet and Mona Ozouf, transl Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 1989. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005 $55.00 ISBN 0-520- 24180-0. Nov 7 The Haitian Revolution

Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. $29.95 ISBN 0-674-01304-2. or Jeremy Popkin, You are All Free. The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $18.82. ISBN: 0521731941 C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution New York: Vintage, 1963. $10.88. ISBN: 9780679724674 Carolin E. Fick, The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below Knoxville, Tenn: University of Tennessee Press,1990. $20. 97. ISBN: 0870496670 James E. McClellan III, Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. $25.00. ISBN: 9780226514673 Nov 14. Women and the Family Suzanne Desan, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. $29.95. ISBN: 9780520248168 Suzanne Desan, Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990. $151.50. ISBN: 0801424046 Dominique Godineau, The Women of Paris and their Revolution. Transl. Katherine Streip, Berkeley, C.A.: University of California Press, 1998. $35.30. ISBN: 9780520067196 Madelyn Gutwirth, The Twilight of the Goddesses: Women and Representation in the French Revolutionary Era New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutger s University Press, 1992. ISBN: 0813517990 Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. $23.95. ISBN:9780801474088 Olwen Hufton, Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. $24.79. ISBN: 9780802068378 Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution. Berkeley: University of

California Press, 1992. $20.00. ISBN: 9780520082700 Lynn Hunt, Male Virtue and Republican Motherhood, in Keith Michael Baker, ed., The Terror, Vol. 4 of The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture (Oxford, 1994), pp. 195-208. Joan Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution Ithaca: N.Y.: Cornell University Press,1988. $17.23. ISBN: 9780801494819 Dorinda Outram, Le Langage mâle de la vertu: Women and the Dsicourse of the French Revolution, in Peter Burke and Roy Porter, eds., The Social History of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 120-135. Nov. 21 The Question of Rousseau Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men: by Jean-Jacques Rousseau with Related Documents ed. Helena Rosenblatt. Bedford/St. Martin s Press, 2010. $15.95 ISBN-10 9780312468422. Carol Blum, Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution. Itahca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986. $45.00. ISBN: 0801495571 François Furet, Rousseau and the French Revolution, in The Legacy of Rousseau eds. Clifford Orwin and Nathan Tarcov, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 168-182 Bernard Manin, Rousseau, in A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Eds. François Furet and Mona Ozouf, transl Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 1989. Joan McDonald, Rousseau and the French Revolution, 1762-1791 London: Athlone Press, 1965 Gordon McNeil, The Cult of Rousseau and the French Revolution Journal of the History of Ideas 6, no. 2 (April 1945), pp. 197-212. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the Social Contract or Principles of Political Right, The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings, ed. and trans. Victor Gourevitch. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. James Swenson, On Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution. Stanford, C.A.: Stanford University Press, 2000. $24.95. ISBN: 0804738645 Nov. 28 Revolutionary Legacies: War and Nationalism

David A. Bell, The First Total War. Napoleon s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. $27.00 ISBN 978-0-618-34965-4 or David A. Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680 1800. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. $45.00. ISBN: 9780674012370 T.C. W. Blanning, The French Revolution and Europe, in C.Lucas (ed.), Rewriting the French Revolution. J.-P. Bertaud, The Army of the French Revolution: from Citizen-Soldiers to Instruments of Power. Out of Print. T.C. W. Blanning, The Origins of the French Revolutionary Wars Longman Group, 1986. $56.97. ISBN: 0582490510 T.C. W. Blanning, The French Revolutionary Wars 1787-1802 Hodder Arnold Publication,1996, $50.57. ISBN: 0340569115 Dec 5 The Birth of Liberalism Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Transl. Stuart Gilbert. New York, Doubleday: 1983. $10.12. ISBN: 0385092601. Benjamin Constant, Political Writings.Ed. Biancamaria Fontana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, $29.40. ISBN: 9780521316323 Thomas Paine, Rights of Man Being and Answer to Mr. Burke s Attack on the French Revolution Dec 12 The Origins of Conservatism and Fascism? Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. L.G. Mithcell, ed., Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009. $8.40. ISBN: 9780199539024 Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France. Richard Leburn, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $26.74. ISBN: 0521466288

Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. $21.34. ISBN: 9780195158939