Important Course Policies
All late work will be penalized by at least one letter grade. No late work will be accepted following the final examination.
Any documented case of academic dishonesty on any assignment will result not only in a failing grade for the assignment in question but also in a failing grade for the course as a whole. If you have questions about how to cite material properly, refer to the appropriate sections of the MLA Style Manual or Chicago Manual of Style (or come talk to me during my office hours). There are copies of both in the reference section of the library downstairs. Please note that also submitting work that you have previously submitted (or plan to submit) for credit in another course is also a form of academic dishonesty, unless you obtain explicit approval from both instructors to do so. For this course, no such double submission is allowed. Please note that your papers may be submitted to turnitin.com to check their content for plagiarism.
Accessing Shared Documents on MyJCU
1. Go to the internal web site (MY JCU).
2. After you have logged in, click on the course post-it for Fall 2014, HS 376. Then click on shared files.
3. You should then be able to access any course handouts not accessible by clicking the links on this syllabus.
4. Be sure to check the handouts page frequently for changes and updates. Similarly, I will post messages on the MyJCU board should I need to contact you in between class meetings (e.g., in the case of an unexpected class cancellation, etc.).
Accessing J-Stor Readings
While on campus, you should be able to access these readings simply by clicking on the links on the syllabus. On the page that appears, you can find links to download the full article as a PDF file or to print it out. Off-campus you may need to go to the website for the Frohring Library, click on the link for "Databases" and "J-Stor" and then search for the article manually.
Course Schedule (Please note that what is below may be subject to minor changes.)
Week One
Sept. 2 Introductions—Revolutions and Comparative History
Sept. 4 Setting the Stage—The World’s First World War and the Crisis of Empires?
Klooster, 1-10
Gould, "Revolution and Counter-Revolution," 214-227, Recommended 227-231 (handout)
PART ONE: NORTH AMERICA
Week Two—First Reaction Paper Due Tuesday or Thursday
Sept. 9 Origins—Imperial Reorganization and British Political Culture
Klooster, 11-15
Breen, “An Empire of Goods,” 467-499 http://www.jstor.org/stable/175565
Sept. 11 Dynamics and Ideology—Patrician Leadership, Plebian Support?
Klooster, 15-41
Linebaugh and Rediker, “A Motley Crew in the American Revolution,” in Linebaugh and Rediker, The Many Headed Hydra, 211-247 (On Reserve)
“The Hypertext Declaration of Independence" http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/compare.htm
Week Three—Second Reaction Paper Due Tuesday or Thursday
Sept. 16 Founding Mothers—Women in the Revolution
Gundersen, “Independence, Citizenship, and the American Revolution,” 59-77 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174027
“Sarah Osborn Recollects Her Experiences in the Revolutionary War, 1837” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5833/
Judith Sargent Stevens Murray, “On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)” http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=165
“Abigail Adams and John Adams Debate Women’s Rights" http://www.historytools.org/sources/Abigail-John-Letters.pdf
“Eliza Wilkinson on Women and War” http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text7/elizawilkinsonsc.pdf
Sept. 18 “Empire of Liberty”—The View from “Indian Country”
Calloway, “‘We Have Always Been the Frontier’: The American Revolution in Shawnee Country,” 39-52 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1185604
“The War for Independence Through Seneca Eyes: Mary Jemison Views the Revolution, 1775–7”
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5826/
“Jefferson's Confidential Letter to Congress” http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=65820#axzz1X3lE1qG2
Jefferson, “Indian Addresses” http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Jefferson/Indian.html
Jefferson, “Native Americans and the American Revolution” http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=220
Week Four
Sept. 23 American Freedom, American Slavery—Afro-Americans and the Revolution
Klooster, 41-44
Crow, “Slave Rebelliousness and Social Conflict in North Carolina, 1775 to 1802,” 79-102 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1920970
“Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h42t.html (View the original document: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h42b.html)
Runaway ad for Titus, 1775 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h1.html
“‘Natural and Inalienable Right to Freedom’: Slaves’ Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature, 1777”http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6237/
“Blacks Petition Against Taxation Without Representation March 14, 1780” http://sageamericanhistory.net/federalperiod/docs/BlacksPet.htm
Phillis Wheatley, “Letter and Poem to General Washington” http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/04/06/george-washington-and-phillis-wheatley/
Benjamin Banneker, “Letter to Jefferson” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h71t.html
Short Biography Presentation: Roberto on Joseph Brant
Sept. 25 Aftermath—Inheriting the Revolution
Appleby, “The American Heritage: The Heirs and the Disinherited,” 798-813 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1902154
Compare the “Constitution of the United States,” (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/usconst.asp) with various Revolutionary era state constitutions (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/18th.asp)
Research Plan Due
PART TWO: FRANCE AND EUROPE
Sept. 26 OFFICIAL FRIDAY MAKE-UP DAY Origins—Imperial Reorganization, Fiscal Crisis, and Demands for Reform
Klooster, 45-51
Shovlin, "Toward a Reinterpretation of Revolutionary Antinobilism: The Political Economy of Honor in the Old Regime" http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/315929
Sieyes, "What is the Third Estate?" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/280/
Week Five
Sept. 30 Dynamics—From Constitutional Monarchy to the Terror and Beyond
Klooster, 51-83
Hunt, "The Rhetoric of Revolution," 19-51 (Handout)
"Terror is the Order of the Day" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/416/
“Living the Revolutions” Character Report (Background) Due
Oct. 2 Meanings?—Rights, Revolution, and Rationalization
Review Klooster, 51-83
“Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
"Constitution of 1793" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/430/
Explore French Revolutionary Songs “Ça Ira” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/caira.html and Others at http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap11a.html
The French Revolutionary Calendar http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/435/
Short Biography Presentation: Nathan on Thomas Paine
Week Six
Oct. 7 Citoyennes—Women and the Revolution
Desan, “‘War Between Brothers and Sisters’: Inheritance Law and Gender Politics in Revolutionary France,” 597-634 http://www.jstor.org/stable/286913
"Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/472/
Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/579/
Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (September 1791) http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/293/
"Discussion of Women’s Political Clubs and Their Suppression, October 1793" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/294/
Short Biography Presentation: Anna on Mary Wollstonecraft
Oct. 9 Regeneration?--Jews and the Revolution
Lindemann, Esau's Tears, 40-50 (Handout)
Vital, A People Apart, 42-62 (Handout)
Zalkind-Hourwitz, "Vindication of the Jews (1789)" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/277/
Clermont-Tonnerre, "Speech on Religious Minorities and Questionable Professions" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/284/
Abbé Maury, "Speech" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/285/
"Petition of the Jews of Paris, Alsace and Lorraine to the National Assembly" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/286/
"Admission of Jews to Rights of Citizenship," http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/287/
“Living the Revolutions” Character Report (1-2 Crossroads/Choices) Due
Week Seven—Third Reaction Paper Due Tuesday or Thursday (or during week eight)
Oct. 14 Aftermath—Napoleonic Europe
"The Napoleonic Experience" (Liberty, Equality Fraternity Website)
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap9a.html (be sure to read all of this web chapter--there are four pages)
Cole, "Playing Muslim," 125-143 (Handout)
Primary Sources on Napoleon http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/501/
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/502/
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/508/
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/509/
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/517/
Short Biography Presentation: Handel on Filippo Mazzei
PART THREE: SAINT DOMINGUE/HAITI AND THE CARIBBEAN
Oct. 16 Origins—Sugar Island Slavery, Racial Discrimination, and Colonial Complaints
Klooster, 84-92
Garrigus, "Saint Domingue's Free People of Color and the Tools of Revolution" in Geggus and Fiering, eds., The World of the Haitian Revolution, 49-64 (Handout)
“Le Code Noir” http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/335/
"Voodoo, 1786" https://directory.vancouver.wsu.edu/sites/directory.vancouver.wsu.edu/files/inserted_files/webintern02/voodoo.pdf
Moreau de Saint-Méry, “On ‘Race’ in Saint Domingue” https://directory.vancouver.wsu.edu/sites/directory.vancouver.wsu.edu/files/inserted_files/webintern02/Saint-Domingue%20Race.pdf
Week Eight
Oct. 21 Dynamics—From Rich Whites to Poor Whites to Free People of Color to Slaves
Klooster, 92-110
Fick, “Dilemmas of Emancipation: From the Saint Domingue Insurrections of 1791 to the Emerging Haitian State" http://www.jstor.org/stable/4289578
Dalmas, "History of the Revolution of Saint Domingue," 89-93 (Handout)
Recommended: Thornton, “African Soldiers in the Haitian Revolution” in Shepherd and Beckles, eds., Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World, 933-945 (On Reserve)
Oct. 23 Meanings?—Political Ideology in a Multicultural Revolutionary Society
Thornton, "'I Am the Subject of the King of Congo': African Political Ideology and the Haitian Revolution" http://www.jstor.org/stable/20078560
Jean François and Biassou, "Letters to the Commissioners," 99-102 (Handout)
Sonthonax, "Decree of General Liberty," 120-125 (Handout)
"Insurgent Responses to Emancipation," 125-128 (Handout)
L’Ouverture, “Dictatorial Proclamation” (1801) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/toussaint-louverture/1801/dictatorial.htm
“Haitian Declaration of Independence” (MyJCU)
“Living the Revolutions” Character Report (1-2 Crossroads/Choices) Due
Week Nine
Oct. 28 From Slave to Citoyenne—Women in the Revolution
Moitt, “Slave Women and Resistance in the French Caribbean,” in Gaspar and Hine, eds., More Than Chattel, 239-258 (On Reserve)
Colwill, "'Fetes de l'Hymen, Fetes de la Liberté': Marriage, Manhood and Emancipation in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue" in Geggus and Fiering, eds., The World of the Haitian Revolution, 125-155 (On Reserve)
Oct. 30 Aftermath—Race, Freedom, and Independence in Haiti and Beyond
Klooster, 110-116
Girard, Haiti, 59-73 (Handout)
“Haitian Constitution of 1805” http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/earlyhaiti/1805-const.htm
“Images of the Armorial of Christophe’s Kingdom (brochure)” http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Haiti.pdf
Recommended: Dubois, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History, 52-88 (Handout)
Short Biography Paper Due
Week Ten—Fourth Reaction Paper Due Tuesday or Thursday
PART FOUR: LATIN AMERICA
Nov. 4 Origins—Criollo Fears and the Threats from Below
Klooster, 117-127
Serulnikov, “Disputed Images of Colonialism,” 189-226 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2517139
Humboldt, “Problems And Progress in Mexico, c. 1800” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1800humboldt-mexico.html
“José de Galvez’s Decrees for the King’s Subjects in Mexico (1769, 1778),” in Mills, Taylor, and Graham, eds., Colonial Latin America, 316-319 (On Reserve)
“Late Eighteenth-Century Inscriptions on Fountains and Monuments in Mexico City,” in Mills, Taylor, and Graham, eds., Colonial Latin America, 384-389 (On Reserve)
“America Nursing Spanish Noble Boys,” in Mills, Taylor, and Graham, eds., Colonial Latin America, eds., 395-396 (On Reserve)
Nov. 6 Dynamics—European Upsets and Conservative Revolutions?
Klooster, 127-157
Adelman, "Iberian Passages", 59-82 (Handout)
Bolívar, “Proclamation to the People of Venezuela, 15 June 1813” (Handout)
“The Plan of Iguala and Other Documents on Mexican Independence” http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/iguala.htm (Scroll Down For the English Versions)
“José María Morelos’s ‘Sentiments of the Nation,’” in Mills, Taylor, and Graham, Colonial Latin America, eds., 397-400 (On Reserve)
“The Argentine Declaration of Independence,” in Mills, Taylor, and Graham, Colonial Latin America, eds., 401-402 (On Reserve)
Recommended: Bolívar, “Reply of a South American to a Gentleman of this Island” http://faculty.smu.edu/bakewell/bakewell/texts/jamaica-letter.html
Short Biography Presentation: Luke on Lord Cochrane
Week Eleven
Nov. 11 Participants, Victims, Martyrs—Women and Latin American Independence
Brewster, “Women and the Spanish-American Wars of Independence: An Overview,” 20-35 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3874426
“Living the Revolutions” Character Report (1-2 Crossroads/Choices) Due
Nov. 13 Indians—Independence?
Platt, “Simón Bolívar, the Sun of Justice and the Amerindian Virgin: Andean Conceptions of the Patria in Nineteenth-Century Potosi,” 159-185 http://www.jstor.org/stable/157661
Bolívar, “Decrees on Indian Rights, Lands, and Tribute,” in Bolívar, El Libertador, 184-190 (On Reserve)
Recommended: Archer “The Indian Insurgents of Mezcala Island on the Lake Chapala Front, 1812-1816,” 84-128, in Schroeder, ed., Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain (On Reserve).
Week Twelve
Nov. 18 Slaves and Castas—Liberty and Equality?
Review Klooster, 149-157
Blanchard, "The Language of Liberation: Slave Voices in the Wars of Independence," 499-523
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hahr/summary/v082/82.3blanchard.html (Project Muse)
Bolívar, “Decree for the Emancipation of the Slaves,” in Bolívar, El Libertador, 177-178 (On Reserve)
Bolívar, “ Letter to General Francisco de Paula Santander: On Slave Recruitment,” in Bolívar, El Libertador, 182-183 (On Reserve)
Nov. 20 Guest Lecture by Prof. Carlos Dews--Crafting Prose for Historical Fiction
Annotated Biography Flowchart Due
Week Thirteen
PART FIVE—COMPARISONS, LEGACIES, EXPERIENCES
Nov. 25 Aftermath—Heroes on Horseback
Wolf and Hansen, “Caudillo Politics: A Structural Analysis,” 170-179 http://www.jstor.org/stable/177739
Bolívar, “The Bolivian Constitution,” in Bolívar, El Libertador, 54-66 (On Reserve)
Bolívar, “Manifesto Justifying the Dictatorship” “Manifesto Concerning the Installation of the Constituent Congress, the End of the Dictatorship, and Announcing the End of His Political Career,” and "Letter to General Juan José Flores," in Bolívar, El Libertador, 140-149 (On Reserve)
Dec. 1 Comparing Revolutions and Legacies
Klooster, 158-174
Trouillot, “An Unthinkable History,” in Trouillot, Silencing the Past, 70-107 (On Reserve)
Dec. 5 Experiences: Reminiscences from Living the Revolutions
“Memoir” Due
FINAL EXAM--Date To Be Announced