Books Assignment List
Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1947).
R.R. Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1941).
François Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
Roger Chartier, The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991).
Timothy Tackett, Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
Peter Sahlins, Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
Alan Forrest, Paris, the Provinces, and the French Revolution (London: Arnold Hodder 2004).
Owen Connelly, Blundering to Glory: Napoleon’s Military Campaigns (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1987).
Isser Woloch, Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002).
Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2004).
Tom Reiss, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (New York: Random House, 2012).
John A. Davis, Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Juan Cole, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
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