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A Day Conference at the King's Manor

 Saturday 11 December 2004

CROSS-REFERENCING REVOLUTIONS: The Politics of International Comparison, 1780-1830

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Convenors: Geoff Cubitt and Alan Forrest

This conference will explore the comparative mindsets and transnational frames of reference of revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries, in Britain, Europe and North America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. What kinds of reference did people caught up in one revolutionary - or counter-revolutionary or post-revolutionary or potentially revolutionary - situation make to the revolutionary expereinces of histories of other countries? How did the canonical revolutionary experiences of seventeenth-century England, and of late eighteenth-century France and America resonate in the political ideologies of later movements in these and other countries, and how did these resonances contribute to people's understanding of their own political position? 

PROGRAMME

10.00-11.30 SESSION 1: FRENCH USES OF ENGLISH REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIENCE
Alan Forrest (York): Charles I and Cromwell in the French Revolutionary Imagination
Geoff Cubitt (York): Revolution and Restoration: French Uses of Seventeenth-Century English History, c.1800-c.1830

11.30-11.45 Coffee

11.45-12.30 SESSION 2: DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Geert Van den Bossche (Ghent): We are all Americans Now: Belgian Cross-Referencing in the Age of Democratic Revolution

12.30-1.45 Lunch

1.45-3.15 SESSION 3: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION VIEWED FROM OVERSEAS
Ultan Gillen (Oxford): Louis XVI and the Irish Counter-Revolution
Simon Newman (Glasgow): The French Revolution From Afar: Boston's Celebration of Valmy

3.15-3.30 Tea

3.30-4.15
Round-table discussion, led by John Barrell (York) and Simon Burrows (Leeds)