#2nd: Adam zamoyski

[genderqueerjacobin]

My booklist

From my old syllabus:

The Old Regime and the French Revolution, ed. Keith Michael Baker (Chicago, 1986)

Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon, Howard G. Brown (Virginia, 2006)

The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France, Suzanne Desan (California, 2004)

The French Revolution in Global Perspective, ed. Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson (Cornell, 2013)

The Oxford History of the French Revolution, William Doyle (Oxford UP, 2002, 2nd Edition)

A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, Laurent Dubois (North Carolina, 2004)

The King’s Trial: Louis XVI vs. the French Revolution, David Jordan (California, 2004, 25th Anniversary Edition)

From Deficit to Deluge: The Origins of the French Revolution, ed. Thomas E. Kaiser and Dale K. Van Kley (Stanford UP, 2011)

The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies, ed. Gary Kates (Routledge, 2006, 2nd Edition)

Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution, Marisa Linton (Oxford UP, 2017)

The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution, Timothy Tackett (Harvard UP, 2015)

There are also some articles and things I have on my computer that I’ll be reading, which I’ll post about when I read them.  

I still have my old syllabus from this class so I’m going to try to follow the readings as they were scheduled, but I don’t have all the books (what I don’t have I’m ordering, if inexpensive, or getting from the library) and might not have access to all the articles anymore, so we’ll see when we get there.  

I’m also going to (re)read some books I either used for my final paper or have picked up/been interested in reading since I took this class.  They include (rereads bolded):

The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France, David Andress (Farrar, Strous, and Giroux, 2005)

The French Revolution and the People, David Andress (Bloomsbury Academic, 2004)

Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions, ed. Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein (Standford UP, 2015)

The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, Robert Darnton (W.W. Norton Company, 1996)

The Literary Underground of the Old Regime, Robert Darnton (Harvard UP, 1985)

The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution, Dan Edelstein (Chicago, 2010)

Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth Century France, Arlette Farge, trans. Rosemary Morris (Pennsylvania State UP, 1992)

Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution, Patrice LR Higonnet (Harvard UP, 1998)

Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Dominic Janes (Oxford UP, 2014) (only the chapters on the French Revolution, obviously)

Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life, Peter McPhee (Yale UP, 2012?)

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France, Lucy Moore (Harper Perennial, 2007)

The Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution, R.R. Palmer (idk what edition yet--possibly the Princeton Classics reprint, 2017)

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama (Vintage reprint, 1990?)

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution, Ruth Scurr (Holt Paperbacks, 2006)

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution, Sophie Wahnich, trans. David Fernbach (Verso, 2015, first published as La liberté ou la mort: Essai sur la Terreur et la terrorisme)

Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and Repression of Liberty, 1789-1848, Adam Zamoyski (Basic Books, 2015)

Obviously this is a lot and I don’t think I can finish the syllabus reread AND the extras in the space of one semester, which is fine!  I fully expect this list to grow and hopefully lead to years of happy armchair scholarship.  

Reread starts August 28, 2019!