Week 1: September 2 - 4

Week 2: September 9 -11

Why Study the French Revolution?

• Cd-Rom, "Getting Started"

• Cd-Rom: Overview, "The French Revolution in World History"

• Cd-Rom, Overview, "Reactions to the Revolution

Old Regime Society: Land, Wealth and Status

• Popkin, 1 - 20

• Censer and Hunt, 1 - 13

• Cd-Rom: ch. 1: "Social Causes of the Revolution," 4 - 9 (+ Documents)

• Doyle, 43 - 75

• [Garrioch, 1 - 168]

• [Film: "Ridicule"]

Week 3: September 16 - 18

Week 4: September 23 - 25

The Enlightenment and Old Regime "Political Culture"

• Censer and Hunt, 14 - 20 + Documents (1.1, 1.2, 1.6 - 1.10, 1.11 - 1.15)

• Cd-Rom, ch. 2: "The Monarchy Embattled," 19 - 31 (+ Documents)

• Cd-Rom, ch. 3: "The Enlightenment and Human Rights," 32 - 43 (+ Documents)

• Doyle, 76 - 108

• [Garrioch, 169 – 204]

• [Landes, 1 – 23]
  

1789: The Outbreak of Revolution

• Popkin, 21 - 53

• Doyle, 109 - 189

• Censer & Hunt, 50 - 54 + Documents (1.3, 1.16, 2.7)

• [Garrioch, 205 - 260]

• [Film: The Affair of the Necklace]

Week 5: Sept. 30 - Oct 2

Week 6: October 7 - 9

On the "Causes" and "Origins" of the Revolution

• Doyle, 1 - 42

• Cd-Rom, Overview: "Origins of the French Revolution"

• Cd-Rom, Ch. 1: "Social Causes," 10 - 13 (+ Documents)

• Cd-Rom, Ch. 4. "Paris and the Politics of Rebellion," 48 - 53 (+ Documents)

• First paper due Tuesday October 7
  

The New Politics: Individual Rights and Social Representation

• Doyle, 189 - 196

• Censer & Hunt, 54 - 62 + Documents (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.8, 2.10; 4.1 - 4.5)

• Cd-Rom, ch. 1. "Social Causes," 13 - 18 (+ Documents)

• Cd-Rom, ch. 4. "Paris and the Politics of Rebellion," 54 - 55 (+ Documents)

• Cd-Rom, ch. 6. "The Monarchy Falls," 88 - 93 (+ Documents)

• [Landes, 24 – 80]

• [Woloch, New Regime, 21 – 94]

Week 7: October 14 -16

Week 8: October 21 - 23

The Crisis of the Constitutional Monarchy

• Popkin, 54 - 72

• Censer & Hunt, 62 - 65, 82 - 85 + Document (2.9)

• Cd-Rom, ch. 4., "Politics of Rebellion," 55 - 57 (+ Documents)

• Cd-Rom, ch. 6, "The Monarchy Falls, 94 - 104 (+ Documents)
  

Revolutionary Government: Resistence and Terror

• Popkin, 73 - 93

• Censer & Hunt, 85 - 104 (+ Documents 2.5, 2.6, 3.1 - 3.5)

• Cd-Rom, Overview: "The Radicalization of the Revolution"

• Cd-Rom, ch. 4 "Politics of Rebellion," 58 - 68 (+ Documents)

• Cd-Rom, ch. 7 "War, Terror & Resistence," 105 - 119 (+Documents)

• [Woloch, New Regime, 173 – 207, 237 - 265]

Week 9: October 28 - 30

Week 10: Nov 4 - 6

Whose Liberty? Whose Equality? Whose Fraternity?

• Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled, 22 - 77; 280 - 304

• Censer & Hunt, 115 - 128 (+ Document 4.6)

• Cd-Rom, ch. 8, "Slavery and the Haitian Revolution" (+ Documents)

• Cd-Rom, Ch. 5, "Women and the Revolution" + Documents

• [Landes, 81 – 174]

• [Livesy, 20 – 47]

• [Film: Danton]
  
  

The Search for a Stable Center

• Popkin, 94 - 108

• Censer & Hunt, 139 - 144

• Cd-Rom, ch. 7. "War, Terror and Resistence," 120 - 127 (+ Documents)

• Woloch, Napoleon, 3 - 35

• [Livesy, 48 – 223]

   

Week 11: Nov 13, 18

Week 12: Nov 20, 25

The Napoleonic Regime:
Continuation, Synthesis or Betrayal of the Revolution?

• Popkin, 109 - 121

• Censer & Hunt, 144 - 150 (+ Documents, 5.1 - 5.7)

• Cd-Rom, ch. 9, "The Napoleonic Experience," 138 - 145 (+ Documents)

• Overview, "The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte"

• Woloch, Napoleon, 66 – 119

• [Woloch, New Regime, 297 -379]

• No Class Tuesday Nov 11

• Second essay due Thursday November 13

The Napoleonic Empire and Wars

• Popkin, 122 - 137

• Cd-Rom, ch. 9, "Napoleonic Experience," 146 - 156 (+ Documents)

• Woloch, Napoleon, 145 – 243

• [Film: "Napoleon"]

• [Woloch¸ New Regime, 380 - 434]

• No Class Thursday, November 27
  

Week 13: Dec 2 - 4

Final Exam : Tuesday, December 9

The Aftermath and Legacies: Is the Revolution Over?

• Popkin, 138 - 150

• Censer & Hunt, 172 - 185

• Cd-Rom, Ch. 10, "Legacies of the Revolution"

• [Film: "Marat / Sade"]

• Third Essay due Thursday December 4