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State and Nation, Subjects and Citizens (slides)

Republicanism and Jacobinism

Background Reading
Popkin, Modern France, pp. 25-64.

Reading for Discussion
Declaration of the Rights of Man (August 1789), on-line.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1793), on-line—how does this differ from the 1789 declaration?
Law on Civil Constitution of Clergy (July 1790), on-line.
"Le Chapelier Law" on workplace organization (June 1791), on-line.
St. Just, "On Republican Institutions" (unpublished notes, 1793-1794), selection on-line.

FIRST ASSIGNMENT due in class on Friday.

Further Reading
Keith Baker et. al., eds., The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, 4 vols. (1989-1994).

Keith M. Baker, Inventing the French Revolution (1989).

Roger Chartier, The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (1991).

William Doyle, Origins of the French Revolution (1980;1988).

Laurent Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean (2004).

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).

Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984).

Mona Ozouf, Festivals and the French Revolution (1988 trans.).

William H. Sewell, Jr., A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution (1993).

Rebecca L. Spang, "Paradigms and Paranoia: How Modern is the French Revolution?" American Historical Review 108 (2003). [JSTOR]

Timothy Tackett, Becoming a Revolutionary (1997).

Key Conceptual Texts
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991, 2006).

Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992)--also available as an e-book, via the IU Library Catalog.



Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution

Republican calendar
Brief Chronology of the French Revolution

Three Estates
abbé Sieyes, What is the Third Estate? (extracts)

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948)