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2001 Seminar Program

The Atlantic Revolutions, 1760-1825
The sessions of the 2000 Atlantic History Seminar are listed below. Each presenter's name is linked to an abstract of the paper presented. A full list of Working Paper titles from the Seminars, arranged alphabetically by author, is also available.

[Please note that participants' affiliations are given as of the time of the Seminar and may have changed since then.]


Monday, August 6

Opening Reception and Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club

Tuesday, August 7

SESSION 1
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Ideological Impulses: The Circulation of Ideas
Chair: John Womack, Harvard University

Rachel Hammerlsey, University of Sussex, UK
"French Revolutionary Republicanism and the Republican Tradition"

Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
"Mirror of the World: Libertines, Heretics, and Rebels in Baroque Minas Gerais: The Minas Gerais Rebellion (1789) and the Naturalist José Vieira Couto"

SESSION 2
2:00 P.M., Robinson Hall

The Problem of "Incorporation": Colonies and the Metropolitan State
Chair: John Womack, Harvard University

Jordana Dym, Skidmore College
"City, State, and Nation in Central America, 1810-1839: From Pueblos to Pueblo: Creating the National State"

Gustavo L. Paz, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
"The 'Rights of the Pueblos': The Emergence of the First Sovereignties in Argentina's Revolution for Independence"

Wednesday, August 8

SESSION 3
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Peopling the Revolutionary State: Citizenship, I
Chair: James H. Kettner, University of California at Berkeley

Malick Ghachem, Harvard University
"The Coming of the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1791"

Seth Meisel, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
"Soldiers and Citizens in Early Nineteenth-Century Córdoba, Argentina"

SESSION 4
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall

Peopling the Revolutionary State: Citizenship, II
Chair: James H. Kettner, University of California at Berkeley

Douglas M. Bradburn, University of Chicago
" 'True Americans' and 'Hordes of Foreigners': Immigrants, Federalists, and the Politics of National Citizenship in the United States, 1789-1800"

Erika Pani, Instituto de investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, México
" 'Actors on a most conspicuous stage': The Citizens of Revolution"

Thursday, August 9

SESSION 5
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Plenary Session

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
"The Idea of Atlantic History: Additions, Second Thoughts, Some Conclusions"

Jack Rakove, Stanford University
"Constitutionalism: The Vexatious Question of European Influences"

Friday, August 10

SESSION 5
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Defining the New Nation
Chair: Jack Rakove, Stanford University

Matthew Rainbow Hale, Brandeis University
"The American Reign of Terror: French Revolutionary Warfare and the Shaping of American Nationality, 1798-1801"

Marixa Lasso, University of Florida
"A Republican Myth of Racial Harmony: Gran Colombia, 1810-1831"

Saturday, August 11

SESSION 6
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Refractions and Interactions
Chair: David Armitage, Columbia University

Monica Henry, Université Paris 7—Denis Diderot
"The American Public Debate on Recognition of the Spanish-American Republics, 1810-1822"

James G. Patterson, Fordham University
"The Aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 in Antrim and Down"

Monday, August 13

SESSION 7
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Financing the National State
Chair: Richard Salvucci, Trinity University, San Antonio

Max Edling, Uppsala University, Sweden
"The Problem of American State Formation: Politics of Taxation and the Creation of the Federal Government"

David J. Weiland III, Utah State University
"The Demise of the Last Medieval Empire: Spain, Spanish America, and the Fiscal Revolution of 1763-1820"

SESSION 8
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall

Resisting Revolution
Chair: Linda Salvucci, Trinity University, San Antonio

Evelyn Powell Jennings, SUNY—Brockport
" 'In the Eye of the Storm': The Spanish Colonial State and African Enslavement in Havana, 1763-1825"

Hakim Nankoe, Cornell University/Yale University
"Counter-Revolution and Controlled Transition to 'Emancipation' in Surinam, 1760-1830s"

Tuesday, August 14

SESSION 9
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Imperial Continuities
Chair: Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire

Kirsten Schultz, The Cooper Union
"The Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Rio de Janeiro and Early Readings of Political Economy in Rio de Janeiro: The Portuguese Empire and the Revolutionary Atlantic"

Paul Tonks, Johns Hopkins University
"The Scottish Defense of Empire in the Era of the Atlantic Revolutions: George Chalmers and the Meaning of the American Revolution for Great Britain"

Wednesday, August 15

SESSION 10
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Legacies, I: The Haitian Diaspora and the Atlantic Revolutions
Chair: Thomas Bender, New York University

R. Darrell Meadows, Carnegie Mellon University
"Social Networks and Transatlantic Migration: Saint-Domingue Refugees during the French and Haitian Revolutions"

Ashli White, Columbia University
"The Politics of 'French Negroes' in the United States"

SESSION 11
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall

Legacies, II: The Politics of Slavery and the Market Revolution
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Matthew E. Mason, University of Maryland
"The Battle of Slaveholding Libertarians: The United States, Great Britain, and Slavery in the Early Nineteenth Century"

Stewart Davenport, Connecticut College
"Luxury, Theology, Liberty: The Role of Religion in the 'Great Transition' Debate"

Thursday, August 16

SESSION 12
10:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Wrap-Up
Members of the Seminar

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