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LEC # TOPICS READINGS ASSIGNMENTS EXAMS
1 Introduction
2 French Society Before the Revolution
  • Popkin. 1-20.
  • Mason. 1-15.
3 The Politics and Institutions of Absolutism
  • Mason. 16-48.
4 The Arts, Politics, and Society
  • Ravel. 1-66, 133-60.
5 Old Regime Theater
  • Ravel. 161-227.
6 1789: Events I
  • Popkin. 21-35.
  • Mason. 49-66.
7 1789: Events II
  • Popkin. 36-53.
  • Mason. 67-87.
8 The Rights of Man: A New Ideology?
  • Mason. 89-124.
First Paper Due.
9 The Unraveling of the Constitutional Monarchy
  • Popkin. 54-72.
  • Mason. 125-156.
10 The Trial and Execution of Louis XVI
  • Mason. 167-187.
  • Michael, Walzer. Regicide and Revolution. 69-89, 219-36.
11 The Terror: Events
  • Popkin. 73-93.
  • Mason. 189-208, 214-243.
12 The Terror: Interpretations
  • François, Furet. "Terror." A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. In Furet and Ozouf, 137-50.
  • Timothy, Tackett. "The Constituent Assembly and the Terror." The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. Vol. 4. In Keith Micahel Baker, ed. The Terror, 39-54.
  • Forrest, Alan. "The Local Politics of Repression." The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. Vol. 4. In Keith Micahel Baker, ed. The Terror, 81-98.
  • Hunt, Lynn. "Male Virtue and Republican Motherhood." The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. Vol. 4. In Keith Micahel Baker, ed. The Terror, 195-208.
Midterm
13 The Directory, Brumaire, and the Consulate, 1794-1804
  • Popkin. 94-108.
  • Lyons. 1-43.
  • Mason. 310-327.
14 The Empire: Domestic Policy
  • Lyons. 4-177.
  • Mason. 40-347.
15 Video: Peter Greenaway, Death on the Seine Second Paper Due
16 Visit to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
  • Lyons. 178-194.
17 The Empire: Foreign Policy and War
  • Lyons. 195-277.
18 Napoleon and the Idea of the "Great Man"
  • Lyons. 278-300.
  • Furet, François . "Napoleon Bonaparte." A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. In Furet and Ozouf, 273-86.
19 Napoleonic Warfare
  • Keegan, John.  The Face of Battle, 117-203.
20 The Revolution in Germany
  • Robert R. Palmer. The Age of the Democratic Revolution, 2:425-456.
  • Fichte. Addresses to the German Nation.
21 Haiti
  • Mason. 208-214, 348-351. Slavery and the Haitian Revolution. Read the online introduction and browse the linked documents.
  • Dayan, Joan. Haiti, History, and the Gods, 143-86.
22 Oral Reports
23 Oral Reports
24 The Legacy
  • Amalvi, Christian. "Bastille Day: From Dies Irae to Holiday." Realms of Memory, In Pierre Nora, ed., 3: 117-59.
  • Kaplan, Steven. Farewell Revolution. Disputed Legacies, 1789-1989, 1-12, 302-313.
  • Video: the Bicentenniel in Paris.
25 Conclusion and Review
Final Exam