Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era
2020
Executive Editors: Bryan A. Banks & Jeffrey D. Burson
This volume comprises selected papers delivered at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, in convened in Tallahassee, Florida from 27-29 February 2020 under the sponsorship of the College of Arts and Sciences, and of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, at Florida State University, with additional sponsorship by the Leon County Tourism Board and the Weider Family. All contributions published herein have undergone the peer-review process. The 2020 edition of the Selected Papers of the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 was produced as a collaboration between the Consortium’s Board of Directors and editors of Age of Revolutions: An Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal (ageofrevolutions.com), and is supported by George Mason University. Accordingly, the editors gratefully acknowledge the editorial contributions and expertise provided by the members of the Board of Directors of the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era, and the Editorial Team of Age of Revolution, without which this volume would not have been possible.
Table of Contents
1. Mullins, J. Patrick. “‘The Great Sacrifice was made through sad Necessity’: Charles Willson Peale’s William Pitt and the Emblemology of Tyrranicide.”
2. Pellettierre, Kelsa. “Friendship and Sociability: A Reexamination of Benjamin Franklin’s Friendship with Madame Brillon de Jouy.”
3. Chandler, Abby. “Loyalists and the Birth of Libraries in New England: The Marriage of Martin and Abigail Howard.”
4. Mairs-Kessler, Alexandre. “Land Grants, Religious Exceptions, and Aide on the Ground: The Role of Local Government in the Resettlement of Loyalists after the American Revolution.”
5. Geserick, Marco Cabrera. “Conquest without War: U.S. Expansionism, the Age of Revolution, and the First Filibuster.”
6. Duarte Caetano, Luiza. “Beneath the Hardened Lava: Images of Nature and Revolutionary Violence in Germaine de Staël’s ‘Épître au malheur’.”
7. Soefje, Ethan. “Testing the Narrative of Prussian Decline: The Rhineland Campaign of 1793.”
8. Summers, Kelly. “A Cross-Channel Marriage in Limbo: Alexandre d’Arblay, Frances Burney, and the Risks of Revolutionary Migration.”
9. Bell, Frances. “‘Thrown into this Hospitable Land’: Saint-Dominguans in Virginia, 1793-1870.”
10. Ivey, Jacob. “‘Born Out of Zhaka’s Spear’: The Zulu Iklwa and Perceptions of Military Revolution in the Nineteenth Century.”
11. Tindemans, Klaas. “Robert Macaire and the Code Civil: Notes about the Political Economy of the French Theater, after Bonaparte.”
12. Harsanyi, Doina Pasca, “Brigands, Social Bandits, Freedom Fighters: The Portrayal of anti-Napoleonic Rebels in the Historiography of Napoleonic Italy.”
13. Krebsbach, Suzanne, “Anne Rossignol, Madame Dumont, and Dr. John Schmidt Junior: Community and Accommodation in Charleston, South Carolina, 1790-1840.”
14. Ayling, Lindsay. “Choosing June: Did France’s Second Republic Intentionally Spark a Class War?”
2020 Board of Directors: Consortium on the Revolutionary Era
Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University
Bryan A. Banks, Columbus State University
David Blackbourn, Vanderbilt University
Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University
Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University
Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University
David Ellis, Augustana College
Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Wayne Hanley, West Chester University
Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina
Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Ralph Kingston, Auburn University
Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas
Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
Peter C. Messer, Mississippi State University
Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
Frederick Schneid, High Point University
Sander Slater, College of Charleston
Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University
2020 Editorial Board: Age of Revolutions
Executive Editor and Co-Founder: Bryan A. Banks, Columbus State University
Executive Editor and Co-Founder: Cindy Ermus, University of Texas at San Antonio
Editorial Liaison to the CRE Board of Directors: Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University
Katlyn Carter, Notre Dame University
Erica Johnson Edwards, Francis Marion University
Javier Puente, Smith College
Blake Smith, University of Chicago
Rob Taber, Fayetteville State University
Kacy Dowd Tillman, University of Tampa
Assistant Managing Editor: Justine Carré Miller, Florida State University
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