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There are lots of great books, journal articles and websites available for you to use to complete this portfolio. If you need assistance in locating sources for this class or any other, don't hesitate to ask.
Biographical Study: ObituaryTwo obituaries of Simon Bolivar, one positive and one negative. |
Film Review: Danton Film is on Reserve in the Library; ask for it at the Circulation Desk. |
Analytical Essay: Interpreting the Revolution See books, journals and web links below |
There are many good resouces linked on the BMS French Revolution website and the website entitled Liberty, Equality, Fraternity .
Note: There are lots of great books, journal articles and websites available for you to use to complete this portfolio. If you need assistance in locating sources for this class or any other, don't hesitate to ask!
Websites for French Revolution:
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Much of use here, including memoires.
Travels in France. An intersting account of the state of the French people on the eve of the revolution.
Timeline of the French Revolution: It's a geocities site, but it gives good information in an accessible fromat..
Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 1790.
18th Century Social Order: Peasants and Aristos
Petition of the Women of the Third Estate to the King.
Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Women, 1789.
The Trial of Olympe de Gouges, 1793-94
Economics of the Revolution. A chart of what people earned and how much it cost to buy enough bread to live.
Eyewitness to History: The Execution of Louis XVI
What is the Third Estate? Robespierre and the Reign of Terror. Good information and very nice reproductions of contemporary documents.
Madame de Remusat: Remembrances of Napoleon
The Return of Napoleon from Elba
The Historical Accuracy of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Operation Parricide: Sade, Robespierre, and the French Revolution
Georges Jacques Danton--links from Bartleby
Women in the French Revolution
Journal Articles from JSTOR:
Note: all sorts of articles are available from ProQuest, JSTOR, and Project Muse--all found on the Library's webpage by clicking 'Online Resources'. ProQuest and JStor are available from home, but Project Muse must be used in school. These resources take some time to search, but full-texts of articles are always available from JSTOR and Project Muse, and frequently from ProQuest.
Colin Lucas The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 68, No. 4, Practices of Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989. (Dec., 1996), pp. 768-785.
944.04 |
Williams, Gwyn A. Artisans and Sans Culottes |
944.04 Y |
Yalom, Marilyn. Blood sisters: the French Revolution in women's memory. |
944.034 C |
Chaussinand-Nogaret, Guy. F rench Nobility in the 18th Century. |
944.04 S |
Schama, Simon. Citizens: a chronicle of the French Revolution. |
944.04 L |
Lefebvre, Georges. The coming of the French Revolution. |
944.04 K |
Kennedy, Emmet. A cultural history of the French Revolution. |
944.04 H |
Hibbert, Christopher. The days of the French Revolution |
940.27 W |
Walter, Jakob. The diary of a Napoleonic foot soldier. |
940.27 B |
Bruun, Geoffrey Europe and the French Imperium, 1799-1814. |
944 04 H |
Hunt, Lynn. The Family Romance of the French Revolution. |
914.406 B |
Bizardel, Yvon. The first expatriates: Americans in Paris during the French Revolution. |
944.04 C |
Cobb, Richard. The French and Their Revolution: Selected Writings. |
944.04 B |
The French Revolution. |
944.04 T |
Thompson, James Matthew. The French Revolution. |
944.04 G |
Gershoy, Leo. The French Revolution and Napoleon, with new annotated bibliography. |
362.5 F |
Forrest, Alan I. The French Revolution and the poor. |
390 H v.4 |
From the fires of revolution to the Great War |
944 H |
Herold, J. Christopher. The Horizon Book of the Age of Napoleon. |
944 J |
Jordan, David P. The King's Trial: the French Revolution vs. Louis XVI. |
944.035 C |
Cronin, Vincent. Louis and Antoinette. |
F 944 M v.12 |
Napoleon, consul et empereur, 1799-1875. Histoire de France illustrée: 2000 ans d'images, v.12. |
944.04 M |
Mercier, Louis Sebastien. The Picture of Paris: [before and after the Revolution] |
F 944 M v.9 |
La revolution, 1789-1799. Histoire de France illustree: 2000 ans d'images, v. 9 |
944.034 F |
Ford, Franklin L. Robe and Sword; the Regrouping of the French Aristocracy after Louis XIV. |
944.04 P |
Palmer, R. R. Twelve Who Ruled : the year of the Terror in the French Revolution. |
301.41 B |
Boulding, Elise. The Underside of History : a View of Women through Time. |
944.04 C |
Cobb, Richard Voices of the French Revolution. |
909 T |
Winds of Revolution, TimeFrame AD 1700-1800. |
944.04 B |
Bernier, Olivier. Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood :the Mob, the Monarch, and the French Revolution. . |
940.27 B |
Bryant, Arthur Sir. The Years of Endurance, 1793-1802. |
Haitian Revolution or one of the Latin American Wars of Independence
Click BOOKS to see what the Edith Hamilton Library has to offer.
From Jstor:
The American Revolution and Latin America: An Essay in Imagery, Perceptions, and Ideological Influence Robert Freeman Smith Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 4. (Nov., 1978), pp. 421-441.
Blood and Debt: War and Taxation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Miguel Angel Centeno The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 102, No. 6. (May, 1997), pp. 1565-1605.
Causes of Spanish-American Wars of Independence Charles W. Arnade; Arthur P. Whitaker; Bailey W. Diffie Journal of Inter-American Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2. (Apr., 1960), pp. 125-144.
The Latin View of the Monroe Doctrine (in Present Status of the Monroe Doctrine) Leopold Grahame Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 54, International Relations of the United States. (Jul., 1914), pp. 57-62.
From Project Muse:
The Language of Liberation: Slave Voices in the Wars of Independence, Blanchard, Peter 1946- Hispanic American Historical Review - 82:3, August 2002, pp. 499-523 - Article [View HTML]
From Expanded Academic:
Latin Americas total war: Peter H. Wilson revisits the War of the Triple Alliance, Latin America's bloodiest conflict. (Chronology)(Critical Essay). Peter H. Wilson. History Today 54.5 (May 2004): p52(8).
Freeing Spanish America: Mixed blessing.(Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin )(Brief Article). The Economist (US) 353.8151 (Dec 25, 1999): p56.
Biographical Study: Bolivar Obituaries
To retrieve sample obituaries from the New York Times go to the Edith Hamilton Library web site, then select "Online Resources". Click on Proquest . You can select the Historical New York Times, which goes from 1857-2002, or Proquest Newspapers, which includes current obituaries. Here is Abraham Lincoln's obituary from the New York Times.
Books in the Edith Hamilton Library
REF 918.0303.E |
Encyclopedia of Latin America. |
REF 980 E |
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture |
921 Bolivar |
Sherwell, Guillermo Antonio. Simon Bolívar (the Liberator) -- patriot, warrior, statesman, father of five nations: a sketch of his life and his work. |
921 Bolivar |
Frank, Waldo. Birth of a world: Bolivar in terms of his peoples. |
ResSmi980 H |
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921 Bolivar |
Trend, John Brande. Bolivar and the independence of Spanish America. |
980.02 W |
The Wars of Independence in Spanish America. |
980.02 L |
Lynch, John. The Spanish American revolutions, 1808-1826. |
Analytical Essay: Haitian Revolution
Books on Reserve:
972.94 F |
Fick, Carolyn The Making of Haiti: the Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. |
972.9 T |
Gaspar, David Berry, and David Patrick Geggus, eds. A Turbulent Time: the French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean |
972.94 J |
James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. |
972.94 O |
Ott, Thomas O. The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804. |
972.94 T |
Turck, Mary C. Haiti: Land of Inequality. |
French Revolution II
Search the text to find relevant material
Slavery and the Haitian Revolution
Freedom and Oppression of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
Arthur L. Stinchcombe American Sociological Review , Vol. 59, No. 6. (Dec., 1994), pp. 911-929.
The Dilemma of the Rights of Man
Charles H. Wesley
Journal of Negro History , Vol. 38, No. 1. (Jan., 1953), pp. 10-26.
The Origins of Abolition in Santo Domingo
George W. Brown
Journal of Negro History , Vol. 7, No. 4. (Oct., 1922), pp. 365-376.
Liberty, Equility, Fraternity-search both Saint Domingue and Haiti.
Example of a Pamphlet from the French Revolution (a)
Example of a Pamphlet from the French Revolution(b)
Example of text of a French Revolution Pamphlet
Revised October 30, 2007
