The End(s) of Revolution
Symposium
Howard Brown, Laurent Dubois, Jill Lepore,
April 25, 2014
2:00-5:00pm Mandel G03News
Announcing Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society
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- American Revolution
- Art of Americas
- captain america
- charlotte smith
- citizen
- citizenship
- Civil War
- counter-revolution
- Counterrevolution
- Definition
- definitions
- french revolution
- gender
- haitian constitution
- Haitian Revolution
- helen maria williams
- Historiography
- ideology
- julia douthwaite
- literature
- madame roland
- marie-olympe de gouges
- mary wollstonecraft
- material culture
- MFA
- Narrative
- Politics
- primary sources
- print culture
- representation
- Revolution
- robespierre
- sensibility
- sentimental novel
- sophia rosenfeld
- Sources
- Subjectivity
- terror
- the public sphere
- Threads in the Age of Revolution
- Toussaint Louverture
- traitors
- treason
- William Wordsworth
- Women
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William Henry Drayton and the Meaning of Revolution
One of my broader intellectual goals in this seminar is to track down the origins of the term “American Revolution.” In other words, when did eighteenth-century Americans begin using the phrase to describe what they were about, and what meaning … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolution, definitions, primary sources, print culture
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Conceptualizing Revolution: A Preliminary Sketch
Whenever we speak of ‘revolution,’ we find it extremely difficult to clarify what we mean by it. And this is what happened in our first session in which we tried but failed to reach consensus on the meaning(s) of revolution. … Continue reading
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Tagged Definition, Historiography, Narrative, Revolution, Subjectivity
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