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Those who need an introduction to the history of this period should read Franois
Furet, Revolutionary France, 1770-1880, available in paperback from Blackwell,
or his shorter volume, The French Revolution (Cambridge).
Mystery document (to be distributed in class).
William Doyle, The Origins of the French Revolution (Oxford: 1980), Intro. &
Part I, pp. 1-40.
Colin Lucas, Nobles, Bourgeois and the Origins of the French Revolution, in
Douglas Johnson, ed., French Revolution and Society (Cambridge: 1976), pp. 88P. M. Jones, The Crisis of the Late Ancien Regime, in, Jones, The Peasantry in
the French Revolution (Cambridge U Press, 1988), ch. 2, pp. 30-60.
Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution (entire)
Documents: Sieys, What is the Third Estate? and Regulations for the
Convocation of the Estates General in the Baker, Old Regime and French
Revolution documents collection.
Timothy Tackett, Nobles and the Third Estate in the Revolutionary Dynamic of
the National Assembly, 1789-1790, American Historical Review, 94: 2 (April
1989), pp. 301.
Rolf Reichardt and Hans Lusebrinck, The Bastille (Duke: 1997), chs. 1-2, pp. 178.
Lynn Hunt, National Assembly, in Keith Michael Baker, ed., The French
Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, vol. 2 (Oxford, New
York: Pergamon Press, 1987).
P. M. Jones, 1789: Between Hope and Fear, in, Jones, The Peasantry in the
French Revolution (Cambridge U Press, 1988), ch. 3, pp. 60-85.
Document: The August Decrees and The Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizen, in Baker collection.
Timothy Tackett, When the King Took Flight (Cambridge: Harvard, 2003), entire
Keith Michael Baker, Inventing the French Revolution (Cambridge University
Press, 1990), ch. 11; pp. 252-305.
Ted Margadant, Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution (Princeton: 1992), chs.
1-2, 6-7 & conclusion, pp. 21-110, 220-286 & 442-456.
Documents: The Constitution of 1791, the Debates on the Kings Trial
Colin Lucas, The Crowd and Politics between Ancien Regime and Revolution in
France, Keith Michael Baker, ed., The French Revolution and the Creation of
Modern Political Culture, vol. 1: The Political Culture of the Old Regime
(Oxford, New York: Pergamon Press, 1987).
Brian Singer, Violence in the French Revolution: Forms of Ingestion/Forms of
Expulsion, in Ferenc Feher, ed., The French Revolution and the Birth of
Modernity (Berkeley: 1990), pp. 150-173.
Document: What is a Sans-Culotte? in Baker documents.
Bell, The First Total War: Napoleons Europe and the Birth of War as We Know It
(Houghton Mifflin, 2007), chs. 6-8 & conclusion, pp. 187-316
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities: Painting Empire in Post Revolutionary
France (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), Intro. And ch. 2, pp. 1-7 & 65103.
Isser Woloch, The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order,
1789-1820s (Norton: 1994), Preface, chs. 1-3 & Reflections, pp. 13-113 & 427433.
Sheryl Kroen, Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration
France, 1815-1830 (Berkeley: UC Press, 2000), Intro. & chs. 1 & 4, pp. 1-39 &
161-201.
Pierre Rosanvallon, Franois Guizot and the Sovereignty of Reason and
Political Rationalism and Democracy in France) in, Rosanvallon, Democracy,
Past and Future, Samuel Moyn, ed. (NY: Columbia U Press, 2006), ch. 5 & 6, pp.
117-146.
Documents: Selections from Joseph De Maistre, Considerations on France, and
Benjamin Constant, Ancient and Modern Liberty Compared, in Baker
document collection