Sovereignty and Citizenship

Universal Rights of Man?

Background Reading
Censer and Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, pp. 49-84.

Discussion: Midterm Exam (4 March 2011)
12:20-1:10 in Ballantine 003
1:25-2:15 in Ballantine 144
The MIDTERM EXAM questions will be distributed at the end of lecture on Wednesday, 2 March 2011. Students will take the exam on Friday, 4 March 2011. Regular discussion classes do not meet this week.

EXAM REVIEW PASSAGES AND EVENTS.

Further Reading
Jennifer Heuer, The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830 (2005).

Olwen Hufton, Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution (1992).

Lynn Hunt, The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (1996).

Joan Landes, Women in the Public Sphere in the Time of the French Revolution (1988).

Ronald Schechter, Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 (2003).

Dale Van Kley, ed., The French Idea of Freedom: the Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights (1994).

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Lynn Hunt, and Marilyn Young, eds., Human Rights and Revolutions (2000).

Human and Constitutional Rights
Resources (Columbia University Law School)


Universal declaration of human rights
(United Nations, 1948)