#  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"

**T**

**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