List of Contributors

David Andress is Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His major publications include The French Revolution and the People (London, 2004), The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution (London, 2005), and, as editor, Experiencing the French Revolution, SVEC 2013: 05 (Oxford, 2013).

Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire is Professor at the University of Nice, fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. Chair of the international programme of research ‘Communicating Europe: Circulations, netwoks and territories’, he has published La France des Lumieres 1715–1789 (Paris, 2011) and with Silvia Marzagalli, Atlas de la Révolution française, circulation des hommes et des idées, 1770–1804 (Paris, 2010).

Marc Belissa is maître de conférences and directeur de recherche in Modern History at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre – CHISCO. He has published numerous books on the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, including Fraternité universelle et intérêt national. Les cosmopolitiques du droit des gens (Paris, 1998), Repenser l'ordre européen, 1795–1802 (Paris, 2006), and with Yannick Bosc Robespierre. La Fabrication d'un mythe (Paris, 2013).

David A. Bell is Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions at Princeton University. He is the author of Lawyers and Citizens (Oxford, 1994), The Cult of the Nation in France (Oxford, 2001), and The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare As We Know It (Boston, 2007).

Howard G. Brown is Professor of History at Binghamton University (State University of New York). He has published several books, most notably Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon (Charlottesville, 2006), as well as numerous essays on politics and violence in French history. His latest research examines the psychological and cultural impact of violence from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.

Simon Burrows is Professor of History at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has also worked at the universities of Waikato and Leeds. He is principal investigator of the ground-breaking ‘French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe’ database project; author of three books; and co-editor of collections on press and public sphere; cultural transfers; and the Chevalier d’Eon.

Ambrogio A. Caiani is lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Kent and has taught at the universities of Greenwich, York, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. His chief publication to date is Louis XVI and French Revolution (Cambridge, 2012) and he is in the process of researching and writing his second monograph on the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.

Kirsty Carpenter is a senior lecturer in History at Massey University, New Zealand. Her research concerns the émigrés and their connections to French Revolution politics and British and European literature. Eugénie et Mathilde by Madame de Souza has just been published by the MHRA (Critical Texts, Vol. 26). She is the author of: Refugees of the French Revolution, Émigrés in London 1789–1802 (New York, 1999), and The Novels of Madame de Souza in Social and Political Perspective (Bern, 2007).

Jean-Luc Chappey is maître de conférences habilité à diriger les recherches en histoire moderne at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (UMR 8066 CNRS), and associated with the Institut d’histoire de la révolution française (UMS 622 CNRS). His most recent work is Ordres et désordres biographiques. Listes de noms, dictionnaires et réputation entre Lumières et Wikipedia (Seyssel, 2013).

Lauren R. Clay, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Stagestruck: The Business of Theater in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Colonies (Ithaca, NY, 2013), as well as articles on professional performance in early modern France. Her current research addresses the culture of commercial capitalism in France during the age of Revolution.

Manuel Covo defended a dissertation entitled ‘Trade, Empire, and Revolutions in the Atlantic World: the French colony of Saint-Domingue between the metropole and the United States, 1778–1804’ at the EHESS in 2013. He will be a research fellow at the Library Company in Philadelphia in 2014–15. He has published an article in French History (2011) and several chapters in French and British edited collections.

Malcolm Crook is Emeritus Professor of French History at Keele University. Among his publications are Elections in the French Revolution, An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789–1799 (Cambridge, 1996) and Revolutionary France 1780–1880 (Oxford, 2002). He is currently completing a book entitled How the French Learned to Vote.

Philip Dwyer is Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His primary research interest is eighteenth century Europe. He is the author of Napoleon, 1769–1799: The Path to Power (London and New Haven, 2007 and 2008), and Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power, 1799–1815 (London and New Haven, 2013).

Dan Edelstein, Professor of French and (by courtesy) History, Stanford University, is the author of The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution (Chicago, 2009), and The Enlightenment: A Genealogy (Chicago, 2010). He is also the editor of The Super-Enlightenment (Oxford, 2010); and, with Keith Baker, of Scripting Revolution (Stanford University Press, forthcoming).

Joël Félix is Professor of History at the University of Reading. His research focuses on the transition from the old regime to the modern world, in particular, by exploring the impact of fiscal issues on domestic development and the international order. His main publications include Finances et politique au siècle des Lumières. Le ministère L’Averdy, 1763–1768 (Paris, 1999), Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette. Un couple en politique (Paris, 2006). He is currently completing a book on the Fiscal Origins of the French Revolution, 1688–1789.

Michael P. Fitzsimmons is Professor of History at Auburn University Montgomery. He is the author of The Parisian Order of Barristers and the French Revolution (Cambridge, MA, 1987), The Remaking of France (Cambridge, 1994), The Night the Old Regime Ended (University Park, PA, 2003), and From Artisan to Worker (Cambridge, 2010), as well as articles in the American Historical Review, French History and the Historical Journal.

Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of York. He has written widely on the history of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and the history of modern warfare. Recent books include The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars (Cambridge, 2009), Napoleon (London, 2011), and (co-edited with Etienne François and Karen Hagemann),War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture (Basingstoke, 2012).

Paul R. Hanson is Professor of History at Butler University. He is currently at work on a book comparing the French Terror to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

John Hardman, formerly lecturer in history at the University of Edinburgh, has published widely on the history of the French monarchy in the later eighteenth century. Among his works are Louis XVI: The Silent King (London, 2000), and Overture to Revolution: The 1787 Assembly of Notables and the Crisis of France’s Old Regime (Oxford, 2010).

Jennifer NgaireHeuer is an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France (Ithaca, NY, 2007). Her essays have appeared in journals including French History, History Compass, Annales historiques de la révolution française, Clio: histoire, femmes et sociétés, and Law and History.

Jeff Horn, Professor of History at Manhattan College, is the author of four books including Economic Development in Early-Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650–1820 (Cambridge, 2015). He also co-edited, with Leonard N. Rosenband and Merritt Roe Smith, Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution (Cambridge, MA, 2010).

Annie Jourdan is research fellow at the University of Amsterdam, European Studies. Her publications include: La Révolution, une exception française? (Paris, 2004); La Révolution batave entre la France et l’Amérique (Rennes, 2008), L’empire de Napoléon (Paris, 2000); Napoléon. Héros, Imperator, Mécène (Paris, 1998). Her next book will be on the French Revolution in comparative perspective.

Thomas E. Kaiser, Professor of History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is a specialist in eighteenth century French politics and culture, has published more than thirty articles and book chapters and has co-edited two volumes of essays. His principal current interest lies in court and diplomatic history, and he is currently preparing a book entitled Marie-Antoinette and the Austrian Plot, 1748–1794.

Marisa Linton is reader in History at Kingston University, UK. She has written extensively on the French Revolution. She is the author of Choosing Terror, Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution (Oxford, 2013), The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (Basingstoke, 2001), and the co-editor of Conspiracy in the French Revolution (Manchester, 2007).

Silvia Marzagalli is full-time professor at the University of Nice and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focuses on merchant networks and warfare reorganization of maritime trade flows. Recent books dealing with the Revolutionary period include: (with M. Biard and P. Bourdin) Révolution Consulat et Empire (Paris, 2009), (with P.-Y. Beaurepaire)Atlas de la Révolution française.Circulations des hommes et des idées, 1770–1804 (Paris, 2010), and Bordeaux et les États-Unis, 1776–1815: politique et stratégies négociantes dans la genèse d’un réseau commercial (Geneva, 2015).

Laura Mason, senior lecturer in History and the Program in Film & Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Revolutionary Politics (Ithaca, NY, 1996) and numerous articles on French revolutionary political culture. She is completing a study of the Directory entitled The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals.

Peter McPhee is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he was Provost until 2009. His most recent books are Robespierre: a Revolutionary Life (London and New Haven, 2012) and Living the French Revolution, 1789–1799 (Basingstoke, 2006). He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2012 for services to education.

Noelle Plack is reader in French History at Newman University, Birmingham, UK. The author of numerous articles, chapters and Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution; Rural Society and Economy in Southern France, c. 1789–1820 (Farnham, 2009), her current project explores the intersection of wine drinking, taxation, and popular rebellion in France from 1789 to 1848.

Jeremy D. Popkin is T. Marshall Hahn, Jr Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. His books on the French Revolution include Revolutionary News: The Press in France, 1789–1799 (Durham, NC, 1990), You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (Cambridge, 2010), and A Short History of the French Revolution (New York, 6th edn, 2015).

Mike Rapport is reader in Modern European History at the University of Glasgow. His publications include The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2013), 1848: Year of Revolution (London, 2009), Nineteenth Century Europe (Basingstoke, 2005), and Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France: the Treatment of Foreigners (Oxford, 2000).

Jay M. Smith is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His major works include Nobility Reimagined: The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France (Ithaca, NY, 2005), and Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast (Cambridge, MA, 2011).

Ronen Steinberg is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is working on a book manuscript titled tentatively The Afterlives of the Terror: Confronting a Violent Past in Post-Revolutionary France.

D. M. G. Sutherland teaches at the University of Maryland. The themes of his work include collective violence that destabilized the Revolution. An example would be the Catholic and counter-revolutionary peasants in the West of France: The Chouans (Oxford, 1982). Another would be the ferocity of both the White Terror and extreme Jacobinism in the Midi: Murder in Aubagne: Lynching, Law, and Justice during the French Revolution (Cambridge, 2009).

Charles Walton, reader in History at the University of Warwick, is author of Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech (New York, 2009). He is Director of the Eighteenth Century Centre at the University of Warwick and is currently writing a book on reciprocity and redistribution in the French Revolution.

Edward J. Woell is a Professor of History at Western Illinois University. He is the author of Small-Town Martyrs and Murderers: Religious Revolution and Counterrevolution in Western France, 1774–1914 (Milwaukee, 2006) as well as several articles and book chapters. His current research and writing focuses on the confluence of religion and politics in small towns during the French Revolution.

Isser Woloch is the Moore Collegiate Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University. His books include Jacobin Legacy (Princeton, 1970), The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789–1820s (New York, 1994), and Napoleon and his Collaborators: the Making of a Dictatorship (New York, 2001). His current project, ‘The Postwar Moment’, is a study of progressive forces in Britain, France, and the USA in the 1930s and 1940s.