States and Peoples, 1680-1850
Other Reading
Introductory texts
General:
Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory. Europe 1648-1815 (2007)
William Doyle, Oxford History of the French Revolution (2002)
Michael Broers, Europe under Napoleon 1799-1815 (1996)
------------------, Europe after Napoleon. Revolution, Romanticism and Reaction 1815-1848
(1996)
Particular countries:
Paul Langford ed. The Oxford History of the British Isles. The Eighteenth Century 1688-1815
(2002)
Colin Jones, The Great Nation. France from Louis XIV to Napoleon (2002)
Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom. The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 (2006)
Simon Dixon, The Modernisation of Russia 1676-1825 (1999)
Primary text databases
Available through OxLip+
ECCO = Eighteenth-Century Collections on-line
MOMW = Making of the Modern World
Freely available
Google: www.books.google.co.uk; www.google.fr/livres; www.google.de/bucher
Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org
Gallica gallica.bnf.fr
Week 1: States and states
Vattel
Special issue on Vattel, Grotiana 2010
Arthur R. Ropes, ‘Frederick the Great's Invasion of Saxony, and the Prussian Mémoire
Raisonné of 1756,’ Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, New Series, Vol. 5 (1891)
[context for Vattel]
General
Manuela Albertone and Allan Potofsky eds. ‘The Idea of Europe in the Eighteenth Century in
History and Historiography/New Perspectives on the Atlantic’, special section in History or
European Ideas (December 2008)
M.S. Anderson, ‘Eighteenth-century theories of the balance of power’, in R. Hatton and M.S.
Anderson (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History (1970)
On the concept of ‘civilisation’:
Bernard Plongeron, ‘Bonheur et civilization chrétienne: une nouvelle apologétique après
1760’, in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century vol. 154 (1976)
Jean Starobinski, Blessings in Disguise, or the Morality of Evil ([1989], trans. 1993)
J.H. Elliott, ‘A Europe of composite monarchies’, Past and Present 1992 (special issue)
David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: a global history (2007)
-------------------- The Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013)
John Bergin, The Eighteenth-Century Composite State, Representative Institutions in Ireland
and Europe, 1689-1800 (2010)
Christopher Storrs ed., The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2009)
G. Ardant, ‘Financial policy and economic infrastructure of modern states’, in C. Tilly (ed.),
The Formation of National States in Western Europe (1975)
Mark Dincecco, ‘Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Revenues in Europe,
1650-1913’, Journal of Economic History 2009– a contribution to debate about the
relationship between political structures and fiscal efficacy currently being conducted by
practitioners of ‘new institutional economics’
Larry Neal, ‘The monetary, financial and political architecture of Europe, 1648-1815’ in L.
Prados de la Escosura ed. Exceptionalism and Industrialisation. Britain and its European
Rivals, 1688-1815 (2004) – good on contrast and complementarity between Dutch, British
and French fiscal regimes
Richard Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace (1999)
Geoffrey Parker, 'Early Modern Europe', in Michael Howard, George J. Andreopoulos, Mark
R. Shulman ed., The Laws of War. Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (1994)
Jennifer Welsh, Edmund Burke and International Relations: The Commonwealth of Europe
and the Crusade against the French Revolution (1995)
Peter S. and Nicholas G. Onuf, Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age
of Revolutions, 1776-1814 (1993)
Lauren A. Benton, A Search for Sovereignty : Law and Geography in European Empires,
1400--1900. Cambridge, 2010.
Ian Hunter, ‘Natural law, historiography and aboriginal sovereignty’, Legal History 2007
(combines an overview of natural law theories with reflections on their use in the nineteenth
century and by historians recently in relation to aboriginal land rights)
Geoffrey Best, War and Society in Revolutionary Europe (1982)
Particular states
J. Robertson, ‘Union, state and empire. The Britain of 1707 in its European setting’, in L.
Stone (ed.), An Imperial State at War (1994), esp. 227-37
J. Brewer, The Sinews of Power (1989) (on Britain, but includes numerous comparative
observations)
D.W. Jones, ‘Sequel to revolution: the economics of Great Britain's emergence as a great
power 1688-1712’, in J. Israel (ed.), The Anglo Dutch Moment (1991)
Richard Butterwick, The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, C. 1500-1795
(2001)
People between states
Peter Sahlins, Boundaries: the Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees (1991)
----------------, Unnaturally French. Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After (2004)
Renaud Morieux, ‘'Diplomacy from Below and Belonging : Fishermen and Cross-Channel
Relations in the Eighteenth Century'. Past & Present (2009), also his book Une mer pour
deux royaumes: la Manche, frontière franco-anglaise (2008)
Jan Lucassen, Migrant Labour in Europe 1600-1900 (1987)
Steven King and Anne Winter eds. Migration, settlement and belonging in Europe, 15002000: Comparative perspectives (forthcoming, 2012)
Linda Colley, Captives (2002)
Primary sources
William Playfair, The statistical breviary; shewing, on a principle entirely new, the resources
of every state and kingdom in Europe (1801) – includes pioneering graphic representations
Week 2: States and peoples
Von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt, ‘The Task of the Historian. Speech to the Royal Prussian Academy of
Arts and Sciences’ (translated) History and Theory 1967, 57-71
Paul Robinson Sweet, Wilhelm von Humboldt (2 vols, 1987)
Andrew Valls, ‘Self development and the Liberal State: the Cases of John Stuart Mill and
Alexander von Humboldt’, Review of Politics 1999, 251-74
General
Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States, 990-1990 (1990), ch 4, ‘States and their
citizens’
Mogens Herman Hansen, Polis and City State. An Ancient Concept and its Modern Equivalent
(1998) – challenges idea that unlike ancient polis, modern states respect personal freedom
Kenneth Dyson, The State Tradition in Western Europe (1980) – on continental traditions of
thinking about the state
Hamish Scott and Brendan Simms eds, Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long
Eighteenth Century (2007)
Marc Raeff, The Well Ordered Police State (1983)
Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989) – the most
influential twentieth-century social theorist alongside Foucault to have shaped historical
thinking about this period
James van Horn Melton, The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (2001) – critical
development of Habermas’ ideas
Tim Blanning, The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture (2002)
Joep Leerssen, National Thought in Europe. A Cultural History (2006)
Knud Haakonssen, Natural Law and Moral Philosophy (1996)
Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor eds, Women, Gender and Enlightenment (2005)
Hamish Scott ed. The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2nd
ed. 2007)
Mary Jo Maynes, Schooling in Western Europe. A Social History (1995)
Clive Emsley, Crime, Police and Penal Policy: European Experiences (2007)
James Riley, The Eighteenth-Century Campaign to Avoid Disease (1987)
Andrea Rusnock, Vital Accounts. Quantifying Population in Eighteenth-Century England and
France (2002)
Thomas Dixon, From Passions to Emotions. The Creation of a Secular Psychological
Category (2003)
Specific places
Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex. A History of the First Sexual Revolution (2012)
[Britain]
Emma Griffin, ‘The ‘urban renaissance’ and the mob: rethinking civic improvement over the
long eighteenth century’ in David Feldman and Jon Lawrence eds. Structures and
transformations in modern British history (2011)
Joanna, Innes, ‘L’« éducation nationale » dans les îles Britanniques, 1765-1815 : Variations
britanniques et irlandaises sur un thème européen [National education: British and Irish
debate in European perspective, 1760-1815], Annales Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 2010
Daniel Gordon, Citizens without Sovereignty. Equality and Sociability in French Thought
1670-1789 (1994) – among other things discusses French ideas of ‘police’ and their
relationship to ‘politeness’
David Lindenfeld, The Practical Imagination. The German Sciences of State in the
Nineteenth-Century (1997) – chs 1-2 run from the Napoleonic period to 1815
Leonard Krieger, The German Idea of Freedom. History of a Political Tradition (1957)
Robert Richards, The Romantic Conception of Life. Science and Philosophy in the Age of
Goethe (2002)
Yair Mintzner, The Defortification of the German City 1689-1866 (2012)
Greta Klingstein, ‘Between Mercantilism and Physiocracy; Stages, Modes and Functions of
Economic Theory in the Habsburg Monarchy 1748-63’ in Charles W. Ingrao ed. State and
Society in Early Modern Austria (1994)
Primary
Helvetius, De l’esprit, ch. 17, ‘Of education’
Ivan Pososhkov, The Book of Poverty and Wealth (orig. 1724) – thoughts on the government
of Russia, in cameralist mode
Catherine II, The Grand instructions to the Commissioners appointed to Frame a New Code of
Laws for the Russian Empire: ...(1767, Eng. trans 1768, on-line)
Diderot, ‘Observations sur le Nakaz’ (composed 1774, Eng trans in Diderot. Political Writings
(1992) (partially available in Google books)
Week 3: States, commerce, empire and global society
Montesquieu
Catherine Larrière, ‘Montesquieu on Economics and Commerce’ in David Carrithers et al eds.
Montesquieu’s Science of Politics. Essays on the Spirit of the Laws (2001)
General
Fernand Braudel, Civilisation and Capitalism 3 vols (Eng trans. 1979)
A.G. Hopkins ed. Globalisation in World History (1992)
Christopher Bayly, Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914 (2004)
Christopher Berry, The Idea of Luxury (1994)
Thomas Munck, ‘Eighteenth-century Review Journals and the Internationalisation of the
European Book Market’, International History Review 2010 – for some commercial
underpinnings of intellectual exchange
Emma Rothschild, Economic Sentiments. Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment
(2001)
------------------------, ‘Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the EighteenthCentury Provinces’, Modern Intellectual History 2004 [on political economists’ analyses]
Victor N. Zakharov et al, Merchant Colonies in the Early Modern Period (2012) – incl chs on
eighteenth-century South of France, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia
David Armitage ed. Theories of Empire 1450-1800 (1998)
Laura Benton, A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 14001900 (2010)
James D. Tracy ed. The Rise of Merchant Empires (1993)
John C. Weaver, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World 1650-1900
(2006)
Janice E Thomson, Mercenaries, Pirates and Sovereigns. State-Building and Extra-Territorial
Violence in Early Modern Europe [1300-1900] (1994)
Alan Karras, Smuggling: Contraband and Corruption in World History (2011)
David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (2000)
AHR Forum, ‘Asia and Europe in the World Economy’, American Historical Review 2002
Specific places
Patrick O’Brien, ‘Inseparable Connections: Trade, Economy, Fiscal State and the Expansion
of Empire 1688-1815’, in P.J. Marshall ed. Oxford History of the British Empire. Vol 2: The
Eighteenth Century (1998)
Maxine Berg, ‘In Pursuit of Luxury: Global Origins of British Consumer Goods in the
Eighteenth Century', Past and Present, 182, 2004
Greg Claeys, ‘Virtue, Commerce and Free Theology: Political Economy and the Dissenting
Academies’, History of Political Thought 1999 – on teaching economics
Francois-Joseph Ruggiu, Les élites et les villes moyennes en France et en Angleterre (XVIIeXVIIIe siècles) (1997) – includes an assessment of role of commerce as against other
occupations/income-sources in family strategies
Philippe Minard, La fortune du colbertisme. Etat et industrie dans France des lumières (1998)
Jean-Claude Perrot, Une histoire intellectuelle de l’économie politique (1992)
Jean-Pierre Hirsch, Les deux rêves de commerce. Entreprise et institution dans la région
lilloise 1780-1860 (1991) – an innovative study of the mentalites of French businessmen, torn
between the desire for protection and the desire for freedom
Robert Fox & Anthony Turner, Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Régime Paris
(1998)
John Shovlin, The Political Economy of Virtue. Luxury, Patriotism and the French Revolution
(2006)
Gabrielle Paquette ed., Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and Its Atlantic Colonies, c.
1750-1830 (2009) esp. chs. 3-4
Jeremy Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2006), esp chs 4-6
Philip J. Stern, The Company State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundation
of the British Empire in India (2011)
N.G. Butlin, Forming a Colonial Economy. Australia 1810-1850 (1994) – on the growth of a
private economy in a convict state
David Ransel, A Russian Merchant’s Tale: the Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich
Tolchenov, based on his diary (2009) - commercial life in the European hinterland
Primary
Vattel, E. de Vattel, The law of nations or, principles of the law of nature: applied to the
conduct and affairs of nations and sovereigns (orig 1758), chs ‘Of commerce’ and ‘Of
mutual commerce among nations’
Week 4: States and churches
Paley
A.M.C. Waterman, ‘A Cambridge Via Media in late Georgian Anglicanism’, Journal of Eccl.
Hist. 1991
G.A. Cole, ‘Doctrine, Dissent and the Decline of Paley’s Reputation, 1805-1825’,
Enlightenment and Dissent 1987
General
W.R. Ward, Christianity under the Ancien Régime,1648-1789 (1999)
Timothy Tackett ed., The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 7, Enlightenment,
Reawakening and Revolution 1660-1815 (2009)
W.R. Ward, Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789 (2006)
Michael Schaich ed. Monarchy and Religion. The Transformation of Royal Culture in
Eighteenth-Century Europe (2007)
Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment. Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
(2001)
David Sorkin, The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to
Vienna (2008)
Jeffrey D. Burson, ‘Reflections on the pluralization of Enlightenment and the notion of
theological Enlightenment as process,’ French History (2012)
Owen Chadwick, The Popes and European Revolution (1981)
Nigel Aston, Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, c. 1750-1830 (2002)
Derek Beales, Prosperity and Plunder, European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of
Revolution, 1650-1815 (2003)
Particular states:
Tony Claydon, Europe and the Making of England (2007) [emphasizes the significance of
England’s orientation towards a ‘Protestant International’]
Brian Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century England. Theological Debate
from Locke to Burke (1998)
Colin Kidd, Unions and Unionism. Political Thought in Scotland 1500-2000 (2008) ch. 6,
‘The two kingdoms and the ecclesiology of union’
Sean Connolly, Religion, Law and Power. The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760
(1992)
Kenneth J Stewart, Restoring the Reformation. British Evangelicalism and the Francophone
Reveil 1816-49 2006
David Bien, The Calas Affair, Persecution, Toleration and Heresy in Eighteenth Century
Toulouse (1960)
Dale Van Kley, ‘The religious origins of the French revolution’ in Thomas Kaiser and Dale
van Kley eds, From Deficit to Deluge (2011)
Susanne Desan, Reclaiming the sacred: lay religion and popular politics in revolutionary
France (1990)
Javier Fernandez Sebastian, ‘Toleration and Freedom of Expression in the Hispanic World
Between Enlightenment and Liberalism’, Past and Present 2011
R.L. Gawthrop, Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia 1993
Michael Printy, Enlightenment and the creation of German Catholicism 2009
Derek Beales, Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2005) [on Habsburg
empire]
Socrates Petmezas, ‘The formation of early Hellenic nationalism and the special symbolic and
material interests of the new radical republican Intelligentsia (ca. 1790-1830)', Historein 1999
http://www.nnet.gr/historein/historeinfiles/histvolumes/hist01/hist01petmezas.htm
Primary
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book 5, Part III, Article 3, Of the expense of the institutions
for the instruction of people of all ages (on-line, ECCO or MOMW)
Gaetano Filangieri, The science of legislation, ch. 17 (pp. 206-12) (on-line)
Abbe Barruel, Question nationale sur l’autorité et sur les droits du people (on-line)
Week 5: Theories of crisis and revolution before the French revolution
Raynal/Diderot
Guillaume Ansart, ‘Variations on Montesquieu: Raynal and Diderot’s Histoire des deux Indes
and the American Revolution’, Journal of the History of Ideas 3 (2009)
Sankar Muthu, Enlightenment against Empire (2003), ch. 3, ‘Diderot and the Evils of Empire:
the Histoire des Deux Indes’
See also Diderot’s Political Writings, J.H. Mason and R. Wokler eds. (1992)
Tom Paine, Letter to the Abbé Raynal, on the Affairs of North America (1782)
http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName
=oxford&tabID=T001&docId=CW105126107&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles
&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE
General
Keith Baker, Ch. 9, ‘Inventing the French Revolution’, in Baker, Inventing the French
Revolution (1990) – specifically on the word ‘revolution’ and its associations
Jean-Marie Goulemot, Le règne d’histoire. Discours historique et révolutions, XVIIè-XVIIIè
siècles (1996 – Bodley only has earlier, 1975 version Discours, révolutions et histoire :
représentations de l'histoire et discours sur les révolutions de l'âge classique aux lumières)
M. Goldie and R. Wokler eds. Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
(2006)
J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment. Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic
Republican Tradition (1975)
Reinhart Koselleck, Critique and Crisis. Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern
Society (orig. 1959, Eng. trans. 1988), esp. Part III, ‘Crisis and the philosophy of history’ (ch.
11 includes a discussion of Raynal; see also long footnotes on pp. 161 and 167 for
discussions of the words ‘revolution’ and ‘crisis’ in eighteenth-century writings)
Melvin Richter, ‘The Concept of Despotism and l'abus des mots’, Contributions to the History
of Concepts 1 (2007)
David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: a Global History (2007)
Franco Venturi, The End of the Old Regime in Europe (3 vols, from his longer Settecento
riformatore, Eng trans.1989, 1991) – and see review of the Italian version by John Robertson
in Past and Present 1992 (special issue on the Cultural and Political Construction of Europe)
Jeremy Adelman, ‘An Age of Imperial Revolutions’, American Historical Review 2008
J. Godechot, France and the Atlantic Revolution of the Eighteenth Century, 1770-99
(1976)
Bailey Stone, The Genesis of the French Revolution, A Global Historical Interpretation (1994)
Paul Schroeder, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 (1994), 3-89
H. Mason and W.Doyle (ed.), The Impact of the French Revolution on European
Consciousness (1989)
Specific places
Frank M. Turner, “British Politics and the Demise of the Roman Republic: 1700-1939,” The
Historical Journal (1986) 577-599
Kathleen Wilson, ‘A Dissident Legacy: Eighteenth-Century Popular Politics and the Glorious
Revolution’, in J.R. Jones ed. Liberty Secured? Britain Before and After 1688 (1992) –
discusses the ‘impact of the revolution on popular political consciousness and political
discourse in the eighteenth century’
Iain McDaniel, “Scottish Historians and Modern Revolutions,” in Anke Fischer-Kattner et al
eds. Schleifspuren. Lesarten des 18 Jahrhunderts. Festschrift fur Eckhart Hellmuth (2011).
M. Sonenscher, Before the Deluge, Public Debt, Inequality and the Intellectual Origins of the
French Revolution (2008) esp. ch. 1,
TCW Blanning Reform and Revolution in Mainz 1743-1803 (1974)
E. Wangermann, From Joseph II to the Jacobin Trials (2nd edn, 1969)
Primary
Accounts of ‘revolutions’ before the American revolution:
Abbé de Vertot, The History of the Revolutions in Portugal (orig. in French Histoire de la
conjuration de Portugal, 1690; Eng. Trans.1712)
--------------------, The History of the Revolution in Sweden (French 1695, 4th ed. 1716)
--------------------, Révolutions romains (1719)
Pierre Joseph d’Orleans, The History of the Revolutions in England under the Family of the
Stuarts (2nd ed. 1722)
J.T. Krusinski, An Historical Account of the Revolutions in Persia 1722-5 (1727)
An Exact and Full Account of the Amazing Late Revolution in Turkey (1730)
A Complete and Authentic Account of the Late Revolution in Genoa (1747)
Jean Rousset de Missy, An Historical Account of the Great Revolution which happened in the
Republic of the United Provinces (1747)
A Short History of the Late Revolution in Amsterdam (1747)
John Campbell, Memoirs of the Revolution in Bengal, Anna Dom 1757 (1760)
The Queen of Denmark’s Account of the Late Revolution in Denmark (1772)
Jean de Lolme, A Parallel between the English Constitution and the Former Government of
Sweden, containing some observations on the late revolution in that kingdom (1772)
Christian Adolph Rothes, The real views and political system of the regency of Denmark fully
explained. Tracing the true causes of the late revolution at Copenhagen (1772)
The Revolution in New England justified (1773)
Alexandre Deleyre, Tableau de l’Europe pour servir du supplement à l’histoire philosophique
des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (1774) [in Google
books] – Deleyre is discussed in the Venturi ch.
Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet, Political and Philosophical Speculations on the Distinguishing
Characteristics of the Present Century (1778)
Oeuvres de Condorcet eds. A. Condorcet O’Connor and M.F. Arago (1847-9), vol. 8, ‘De
l’influence de la revolution d’Amérique sur l’Europe’ [1786]
History books in American colonial libraries:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=592&Itemid=259
For studies of changing vocabulary
Rolf Reichardt and Eberhard Schmitt eds. Handbuch politisch-sozialer Begriffe in Frankreich
1680-1820- (multi volume, 1985-)
Week 6: Understanding the French Revolution
For a brief but wide ranging account (with some reference to historiographical debates):
Gwynne Lewis, The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate (1993)
William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (2nd edn, 2002)
T.C.W. Blanning, The French Revolution: Aristocrats versus Bourgeois? (1987)
---------------------ed. The Rise and Fall of the French Revolution (1996) useful collection of
articles
Jean-Clement Martin, La Révolution à l’oeuvre. Perspectives actuelles dans l’histoire de la
Révolution française (2005)
Paul Hanson, Contesting the French Revolution (2009)
Forum: ‘Is it really over? The French Revolution Twenty Years after the Bicentennial’, French
Historical Studies Fall 2009
David P. Jordan, The King’s Trial: The French Revolution vs Louis XVI (2nd edn, 2004) (and
on line at http://books.google.co.uk)
Howard G. Brown, Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression from the
Terror to Napoleon (2004)
Francois Furet and Mona Ozouf eds, The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern
Political Culture vol 3 The Transformation of Political Culture 1789-1848 (1990)
David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam eds. The Age of Revolutions in Global Context
(2009)
Michael Sonenscher, ‘Republicanism, state finances and the emergence of commercial society
– or from royal to ancient republicanism and back’ in M. van Gelderen and Q. Skinner eds.
Republicanism: a European Heritage vol. 2 (2002)
Norman Hampson, ‘The French Revolution and the Nationalization of Honour,’ in M.R.D.
Foot ed., War and Society: Historical Essays in Memory of J.R. Western (1973) – summarises
Hampson’s ideas about how Montesquieu and Rousseau’s thought influenced the revolution.
Cf Joan McDonald, Rousseau and the French Revolution 1762-1791 (1965)
Dan Edelstein, The Terror of Natural Right, Republicanism, the Cult of Nature and the French
Revolution (2009) [includes thoughts on Vattel and the French revolution]
Brian Singer, Society, Theory and the French Revolution: Studies in the Revolutionary
Imaginary (1986)
William Reddy, The Navigation of Feeling: a Framework for the History of Emotions (2001),
ch. 6 ‘Sentimentalism in the Making of the French Revolution’
‘Imaging the French Revolution: depictions of the revolutionary crowd’ http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/imaging/home.html, website with images and a collection of
interpretative essays
Hedva Ben-Israel, English Historians on the French Revolution (1968)
Ann Rigney, The rhetoric of historical representation: three narrative histories of the French
Revolution (1990)
Primary
St Just and Condorcet on the 1793 constitution, in their respective Oeuvres complètes
Pierre Louis Roederer, The Spirit of the Revolution of 1789, and other
writings of the revolutionary epoch [orig. 1815, new ed. 1989) – see also the Tory John
Wilson Croker's 'Essays on the early period of the French Revolution (1857)', directly critical
of Roederer's reconstruction of events and ideas
Joseph de Maistre, Considérations sur la France, ed. Jean-Louis Darcel (1980), also trans. in
The Works of Joseph de Maistre, tr. Jack Lively (1965)
François Guizot, Historical Essays and Lectures (English trans. 1972)
M. Marchione ed, Philip Mazzei: selected writings and Correspondence, volume II 1788-1791
(1983): correspondence between Stanislaw-Augustus of Poland and his diplomatic agent in
Paris Philip Mazzei: includes roughly three hundred letters where Mazzei and Poniatowski
discuss and compare the two revolutions happening on the opposite ends of Europe.
Week 7: The revolutionary empire and its impact
De Stael
Marie Fairweather, Madame de Stael (2005) – a good intellectual biography is lacking,
though Michael Sonenscher is now working on the Coppet circle
General
Michael Broers, Europe under Napoleon, 1799-1815 (1996)
Stuart Woolf, Napoleon’s Integration of Europe (1991)
Alexander Grab, Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe (2003)
Martyn Lyons, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution (1994)
Geoffrey Ellis, The Napoleonic Empire (2nd edn, 2003)
Philip Dwyer ed. Napoleon and Europe (2001)
Charles J. Esdaile, The Wars of Napoleon (1995)
Michael Rowe ed. Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe (2003)
Charles Esdaile ed. Popular Resistance in the French Wars. Patriots, Partisans and Land
Pirates (2005)
Joep Leerssen, National Thought in Europe. A Cultural History (2006)
Otto Dann and John Dinwiddy eds. Nationalism in the Age of the French Revolution (1988)
Specific places
Stuart Semmel, Napoleon and the British (2004) – attitudes to Napoleon
Owen Connelly, Napoleon’s Satellite Kingdoms (1965) very old & basic but an easy
introduction
Natalie Petiteau ed. Voies nouvelles pour l’histoire du Premier Empire, Territoires, Pouvoirs,
Identités (2003)
Nicola-Peter Todorov, L’Administration du Royaume de Westphalie 1807 à 1813 (2011)
Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830
(2007)
Alan Forrest & Peter H. Wilson, The Bee and the Eagle, Napoleonic France and the End of
the Holy Roman Empire 1806 (2009)
Michael Broers, The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy, The War against God 1801-1814
(2002)
-------------------, The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796 – 1814, Cultural Imperialism in a
European Context? (2005)
John A Davis, Naples and Napoleon, Southern Italy and the European Revolutions 1780 -1860
(2006)
Christopher A. Blackburn, Napoleon and Szlachta (1998)
Primary
Von Clausewitz, On War, Book I - an interesting contrat to Vattel
Benjamin Constant, Political Writings ed. Biancamaria Fontana (1988)
Week 8: Restoration states: illiberal and liberal
Chateaubriand
Jean-Paul Clement, Chateaubriand: biographie morale et intellectelle and Chateaubriand
politique
G. Bertier de Sauvigny, Chateaubriand: homme d’etat
General
Michael Broers, Europe after Napoleon: Revolution, Reaction, and Romanticism, 1814-48
(1996)
Jonathan Sperber, Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850 (2000)
Alan Sked (ed.), Europe's Balance of Power 1815-1848 (1979)
Mikulas Fabry,. Recognizing States : International Society and the Establishment of New
States Since 1776.
Martin Kirsch, Monarch und Parlament im 19. Jahrhundert : der monarchische
Konstitutionalismus als europäischer Verfassungstyp-- Frankreich im Vergleich (1999)
William Godsey Jr, Nobles and Nation in Central Europe, Free Imperial Knights in the Age of
Revolution, 1750 – 1850 (2004) ask the interesting question as to why some nobles embraced
nationalism and others supra-national Empires. After all Stein, Stadion and Metternich all
came from the same place!
Jose Luis Cardoso and Pedro Lains eds., Paying for the Liberal State. The Rise of Public
Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2010)
Raffaeli Romanelli ed. How did they become Voters? The History of Franchise in Modern
European Representation (1998)
Clive Emsley
Bk on freedom of press
Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich, Romanticism in National Context
Jörn Leonhard, Liberalismus. Zur historischen Semantik eines europäischen Deutungsmusters
(2001)
Lots of reference information in:
Theodore Hamerow, The Birth of a New Europe. State and Society in the Nineteenth Century
(1983)
Eugene and Pauline Anderson, Political Institutions and Social Change in Continental Europe
in the Nineteenth Century (1967)
Challenging Restoration states
Maurizio Isabella, Risorgimento in Exile. Italian Emigrés and the Liberal International in the
Post-Napoleonic Era (2009)
Clive Church, Europe in 1830: Revolution and Political Change (1983)
Dieter Döwe ed. Europe in 1848: Revolution and Reform (2001)
New imperialisms
Jennifer Pitts, A Turn to Empire. The Rise of Liberal Imperialism in Britain and France (2005)
Specific places
Stuart Semmel, ‘British radicals and “legitimacy”. Napoleon and the mirror of history,’ Past
and Present 2000
Gareth Stedman Jones, 'National bankruptcy and social revolution: European observers on
Britain, 1831-1844', D. Winch and P.K. O'Brien eds. The Political Economy of British
Historical Experience (2002)
Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny, The Bourbon Restoration (1966) spendid reactionary stuff
Munro Price, The Perilous Crown: France between Revolutions, 1814-48 (2007)
Pierre Rosanvallon, La Monarchie Impossible. Les Chartes de 1814 et 1830 (1994)
J. A. W. Gunn, When the French tried to be British, Party Opposition and the Quest for Civil
Disagreement 1814 – 1848 (2009) very difficult
Annabel De Dijn, French political thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville. Liberty in a
leveled society? (2008)
Ian Coller, Arab France (2011)
James J. Sheehan, German History, 1770-1866 (1989), 389-587
Abigail Green, Fatherlands. State building and nationhood in nineteenth-century Germany
(2001)
Stuart Woolf, Italy 1780-1880. The Social Foundations of Political Change
David Laven, Venice and Venetia under the Habsburgs 1815 – 1835 (2002)
Primary
William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825?)
Clemens von Metternich, Memoirs, vols 3-4 (1880-1)
Giuseppe Pecchio, Anecdotes of the Spanish and Portuguese Revolutions (1823) – in Google
books
Karamzin, Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia
Alexander Herzen, Childhood, Youth and Exile (a Russian socialist)
József Eötvös, The Dominant Ideas of the Nineteenth Century and their Impact on the State
(orig 1851-2, Liberty Fund edition 1996, 8 available on-line)