Jeremy D. Popkin

The French idea of freedom : the Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789

Acknowledgements Contributors Declaration on the rights of man and of the citizen Introduction Dale Van Kley Part I. Context: 1. Old regime origins of democratic liberty David D. Bien 2. From the lessons of French history to truths for all times and all people: the historical origins of an anti-historical declaration Dale Van Kley 3. Betwixt cattle and men: Jews, blacks, and women, and the declaration of the rights of man Shanti Marie Singham 4. The idea of a declaration of rights Keith Michael Baker Part II. Text: 5. National sovereignty and the general will: the political program of the declaration of rights J. K. Wright 6. Safeguarding the rights of the accused: lawyers and political trials in France, 1716-1789 David A. Bell 7. Religious toleration and freedom of expression Raymond Birn 8. Property, sovereignty, the declaration of the rights of man, and the tradition of French jurisprudence Thomas E. Kaiser Glossary Abbreviations Notes Index.

Holocaust Memories, Historians' Memoirs: First-Person Narrative and the Memory of the Holocaust

It has become more common for professional historians to write about their own lives during the last few decades, but no other group of contemporary historians has shown such a propensity to write personal memoirs as those from Jewish origins whose lives were directly affected by the Holocaust, whether or not it has been their principal subject of study.1 The fact that historians from this particular group have been so prone to writing about their own lives indicates that the general issues raised by the confrontation of history and autobiography are especially intense with respect to the Holocaust. These historians’ published recollections have become a significant part of the literature of first-person recollections from the Holocaust era. In some respects, however, the stories they tell are at odds both with the dominant tendencies in the larger body of survivor literature and with major assumptions about modern Jewish history. These memoirs thus raise important questions about the representations of the Holocaust and about the construction of twentieth-century Jewish identity. Fundamentally, the problem that autobiography poses for historians is that it challenges history’s claim to be the science of the human past,

News and Politics in the Age of Revolution: Jean Luzac's "Gazette de Leyde"

At the center of this book stands the story of a great but forgotten newspaper: the Gazette de Leyde, edited by Jean Luzac from 1772 to 1798. A French-language biweekly newspaper published in the Dutch city of Leiden from 1677 to 1811, the Gazette de Leyde was regarded as the international newspaper of record, occupying the cultural niche filled today by the New York Times and Le Monde.Jeremy D. Popkin reconstructs the Gazettes history, providing a comprehensive picture of the environment that produced it, how it gathered and printed its reports, its relationship with its readers, and the way it depicted the great events of three critical decades. In rich detail he shows that absolutist regimes often cooperated with the Gazettes editors, providing information and condoning its publication in open violation of their own censorship regimes.He also examines the Dutch context which fostered both the freedom that made the papers publication possible and the technology and business skills that allowed for its rapid publication and successful marketing. In addition, he draws on a wide reading of the press of the period to compare the Gazette with other major newspapers. He concludes with a treatment of the papers fortunes during the era of the French Revolution.

Not Over After All: The French Revolution’s Third Century*

It is now three decades since Francois Furet proclaimed that “la Revolution francaise est terminee,”1 and more than a decade since the academic observances of its bicentennial marked the triumph of the “revisionist” interpretation of 1789, of which Furet was the most celebrated proponent. The revisionist scholars put forward a largely negative view of the Revolution. In their interpretation, it had failed to establish the bases for a political order based on freedom and respect for individual rights. As Keith Baker put it in a memorable phrase, by its political choices in 1789 the National Assembly was already “opting for the Terror”2 and foreclosing the possibility of a political system that would recognize legitimate opposition and

Periodical Publication and the Nature of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Can one truly maintain that the mere fact of publication in continuing serial form, as distinguished from any other method of collecting and disseminating information, is enough to constitute a distinct “form of knowledge?” Is this not merely confusing the container—the form of publication—with the thing contained? It would be difficult to find any specimen of eighteenth-century knowledge published in a periodical that was not also circulated at the time in letters, in printed books, and, of course, in oral discussion. There will no doubt be many who will argue that historians of ideas should put aside the question of the medium in which knowledge was communicated and concentrate on the real issue, namely, the content itself. This is the procedure we expect when we open a scholarly work with a title such as Diderot’s Metaphysics or Voltaire’s Politics: if the venue of publication of the ideas discussed in such a study is treated as an issue, it is normally only in order to determine whether censorship could be considered to have limited the expression of the author’s “true” views.

Ego‐histoire down under: Australian historian‐autobiographers

The French historian Pierre Nora may have created the notion of ego‐histoire, but on a proportional basis, more historians from Australia than from any other country have followed his advice to write about their own lives.1 These autobiographies provide unique insights into the countrys evolution over the course of two generations from a colonial to a post‐colonial situation, to the contributions that historians, acting as autobiographers, can make to historical understanding, and to what the practice of history can contribute to the understanding of the historians own personal experience. More explicitly than the comparable efforts of historians elsewhere, these publications demonstrate the close connection between individual and national identity and the understanding of history.

Family Memoir and Self-Discovery

In the increasingly popular genre of ‘family memoir,’ authors take readers with them as they pursue the details of the lives of their parents and other relatives. Emphasising both the painstaking quest for information about a family past they did not know and the highly personal nature of such projects, family memoirs straddle the boundaries between history, biography, and autobiography. Family memoir is an aspect of the graphic-art works of Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel, but it has also been pursued by academics and journalists, including Daniel Mendelsohn, Alexander Stille, and Bliss Broyard. Often resented by their authors’ living relatives, these chronicles appeal to readers because they pose universal questions about the connections between family history and personal identity.

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-revolutionary France.Robert DarntonThe Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789.Robert Darnton

A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolve the problem? From what sources? Well, there are so many questions that we utter every day. No matter how you will get the solution, it will mean better. You can take the reference from some books. And the the forbidden best sellers of pre revolutionary france is one book that we really recommend you to read, to get more solutions in solving this problem.

Recent West German Work on the French Revolution

It would not be a gross exaggeration to say that, for most of the last two centuries, the events of the French Revolution have been of less interest to German historians than to other German intellectuals. Such German thinkers as Kant and Hegel followed the Revolutions development with passionate interest and were often more alert to its most profound implications than the French themselves. But professional historians rarely chose it as a subject. The historical profession was not, of course, indifferent to the events of 1789: indeed, historicism, the major German contribution to modern historical thought, was born in reaction to the revolutionary challenge. When a Ranke or a Meinecke turned his attention to French history, however, he tended to focus on the growth of the absolutist monarchy perfected by Richelieu and Louis XIV. Unlike Tocqueville, the German school failed to recognize the French revolutionary state as the vastly more powerful heir of the absolutist state that fascinated them. It is therefore a considerable surprise to find that the most ambitious historical project undertaken so far to mark the upcoming bicentennial of the French Revolution is based in West Germany and is being published

The Condorcet-Suard Correspondence

LEONORA COHEN ROSENFIELD HAD A LONGSTANDING INTEREST in the French philosopher Condorcet, whom she saw as one of the great forerunners of a modern democratic thought. The last project she completed was the editing of a volume of Condorcet Studies, bringing together essays by leading European and American scholars illustrating the wide range of Condorcets intellectual contributions.1 Another project she had hoped to undertake was the preparation of an edition of his correspondence with the journalist and translator J. B. A. Suard and his wife, Amelie Panckoucke. These letters, which have been known to scholars since Rene Doumic published excerpts from them in 1911-12, are now in the Bibliotheque nationale and have been consulted in most recent studies of Condorcet; some were published in whole or in part in L.A. Boiteuxs publications about the Suards.2 Professor Rosenfield was convinced that this, the most extensive known unpublished collection of Condorcets personal correspondence, deserved publication in an annotated edition that would make the material available to a wider audience and contribute to a fuller understanding of Condorcets life and work. Thanks to the generosity of Professor Rosenfields husband, Harry N. Rosenfield, who has given me the copies his