The Atlantic Revolutions, 1760-1825
2001 Annual Seminar
Tuesday, August 7
SESSION 1
Ideological Impulses: The Circulation of Ideas
Chair: John Womack, Harvard University
Rachel Hammerlsey, University of Sussex, UK
"French Revolutionary Republicanism and the Republican Tradition"
Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
"Mirror of the World: Libertines, Heretics, and Rebels in Baroque Minas Gerais: The Minas Gerais Rebellion (1789) and the Naturalist José Vieira Couto"
SESSION 2
The Problem of "Incorporation": Colonies and the Metropolitan State
Chair: John Womack, Harvard University
Jordana Dym, Skidmore College
"City, State, and Nation in Central America, 1810-1839: From Pueblos to Pueblo: Creating the NationalState"
Gustavo L. Paz, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
"The 'Rights of the Pueblos': The Emergence of the First Sovereignties in Argentina's Revolution for Independence"
Wednesday, August 8
SESSION 3
Peopling the Revolutionary State: Citizenship, I
Chair: James H. Kettner, University of California at Berkeley
Malick Ghachem, Harvard University
"The Coming of the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1791"
Seth Meisel, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
"Soldiers and Citizens in Early Nineteenth-Century Córdoba, Argentina"
SESSION 4
Peopling the Revolutionary State: Citizenship, II
Chair: James H. Kettner, University of California at Berkeley
Douglas M. Bradburn, University of Chicago
" 'True Americans' and 'Hordes of Foreigners': Immigrants, Federalists, and the Politics of National Citizenship in the United States, 1789-1800"
Erika Pani, Instituto de investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, México
" 'Actors on a most conspicuous stage': The Citizens of Revolution"
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hursday, August 9
Plenary Session
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
"The Idea of Atlantic History: Additions, Second Thoughts, Some Conclusions"
Jack Rakove, Stanford University
"Constitutionalism: The Vexatious Question of European Influences"
Friday, August 10
SESSION 5
Defining the New Nation
Chair: Jack Rakove, Stanford University
Matthew Rainbow Hale, Brandeis University
"The American Reign of Terror: French Revolutionary Warfare and the Shaping of American Nationality, 1798-1801"
Marixa Lasso, University of Florida
"A Republican Myth of Racial Harmony: Gran Colombia, 1810-1831"
Saturday, August 11
SESSION 6
Refractions and Interactions
Chair: David Armitage, Columbia University
Monica Henry, Université Paris 7—Denis Diderot
"The American Public Debate on Recognition of the Spanish-AmericanRepublics, 1810-1822"
James G. Patterson, Fordham University
"The Aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 in Antrim and Down"
Monday, August 13
SESSION 7
Financing the National State
Chair: Richard Salvucci, Trinity University, San Antonio
Max Edling, Uppsala University, Sweden
"The Problem of AmericanState Formation: Politics of Taxation and the Creation of the Federal Government"
David J. Weiland III, Utah State University
"The Demise of the Last Medieval Empire: Spain, Spanish America, and the Fiscal Revolution of 1763-1820"
SESSION 8
Resisting Revolution
Chair: Linda Salvucci, Trinity University, San Antonio
Evelyn Powell Jennings, SUNY—Brockport
" 'In the Eye of the Storm': The SpanishColonialState and African Enslavement in Havana, 1763-1825"
Hakiem Nankoe, Cornell University /Y ale University
"Counter-Revolution and Controlled Transition to 'Emancipation' in Surinam, 1760-1830s"
Tuesday, August 14
SESSION 9
Imperial Continuities
Chair: Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire
Kirsten Schultz, The Cooper Union
"The Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Rio de Janeiro and Early Readings of Political Economy in Rio de Janeiro: The Portuguese Empire and the Revolutionary Atlantic"
Paul Tonks, Johns Hopkins University
"The Scottish Defense of Empire in the Era of the Atlantic Revolutions: George Chalmers and the Meaning of the American Revolution for Great Britain"
Wednesday, August 15
SESSION 10
Legacies, I: The Haitian Diaspora and the Atlantic Revolutions
Chair: Thomas Bender, New York University
R. Darrell Meadows, Carnegie Mellon University
"Social Networks and Transatlantic Migration: Saint-Domingue Refugees during the French and Haitian Revolutions"
Ashli White, Columbia University
"The Politics of 'French Negroes' in the United States"
SESSION 11
Legacies, II: The Politics of Slavery and the Market Revolution
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Matthew E. Mason, University of Maryland
"The Battle of Slaveholding Libertarians: The United States, Great Britain, and Slavery in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Stewart Davenport, Connecticut College
"Luxury, Theology, Liberty: The Role of Religion in the 'Great Transition' Debate"
Thursday, August 16
SESSION 12
Summary and Interpretation
Members of the Seminar