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Consortium on Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850
19-21 February 2015
Conference Program
Thursday 19 February
12:00-5:00pm Conference Registration
Courtyard Marriott
6:00-7:00pm Conference Registration
Phillips Hall
5:45-6:45pm Shuttle buses from hotels to High Point University, Phillips Hall
6:00-7:00pm Reception
Phillips Hall
7:00-8:00 PM Keynote Address:
“Russia and the Defeat of Napoleon: Myth and Reality”
-Dominic Lieven, London School of Economics
8:15-8:45pm Shuttle buses from Phillips Hall to hotels.
Friday 20 February
8:00-12:00pm Conference Registration
Phillips Hall Foyer
7:45-10:00am Shuttle Buses from hotels to High Point University, Phillips Hall
Session 1: 8:30am-10:15am
Panel 1A: Diplomacy, Strategy, and War in the Western Mediterranean
Chair: Marsha Frey, Kansas State University
“Consuls, Captives and Captains: The Mediterranean Roots of the
Treaty of San Il Defonso,”
1793 – 1796
Joshua Meeks, Florida State University
“American Consular Intelligence Operations in the First Barbary
War”
Caleb S. Greinke, Independent Scholar
1 “Unwanted Necessity: Early British Quarantine Policy in Malta,
1800-1820”
Andrew Zwilling, Florida State University
Comment: Linda Frey, University of Montana
Panel 1B: Central Europe from the Napoleonic Era to Mid-Century
Chair: Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University
“The Plunder State: Napoleon’s Exploitation of the Kingdom of
Westphalia”
Sam Mustafa, Ramapo College
“At 200: Article 16 and the Fate of Central Europe’s Jews”
David Meola, Sewanee: University of the South
“Instantly Organic – Just Add Re-imagined Tradition: The
Creation of the Prussian House of Lords in the 1850s”
David Ellis, Augustana College
Comment: Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University
Panel 1C: “The Contested Paradigm of Federalism”
Chair: Susan Conner, Albion College
“The ‘Discursive Chaos’ of Republicanism: Mercy Otis Warren and
the Federalist Debate”
Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, New Jersey City University
“François Buzot, A Patriot Who Favored Federalism”
Bette Oliver, Independent Scholar
Commentator: Doinya Harsanyi, Central Michigan University
Panel 1D:
Warfare and Leadership during the French Revolution
Chair: Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State UniversityShreveport
“Brains before Brawn: The Scientific Basis for Artillery
Development in Europe, 1740-1815”
2 Kevin Kiley, Independent Scholar
“Images and Imaginings of Revolutionary France in her Armies of
Occupation: The soldiers of the Armée d’Italie and the Expedition de
l’Egypte”
Fergus Robson, Trinity College, Dublin
“How to Become a General by Age 30, or the Rise of Michel Ney”
Wayne Hanley, West Chester University
Comment: Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
Morning Break: 10:15-10:30am
Phillips Hall, 2nd Floor
Session 2: 10:30am-12:15pm
Panel 2A: The “Revolutions of 1830”: The End of the Age of Revolution or a
Continuation of a Transnational Revolutionary Period?
Chair: Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi
“The War of 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte, Continental Identities and
Destinies”
Duncan A. Campbell, National University
“The Atlantic Revolutions of 1830: Liberal-Nationalist State
Building”
Niels Eichhorn, Middle Georgia State College
“The Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838: “Age of Revolution”
or “Market Revolution”?”
Robert S. Richard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Commentator: Andrew J. Fagal, Princeton University
Panel 2B: In the Wake of French Revolutionary Religion: Protestants, Colonies,
and Republics
Chair: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
3 “The Right to Return: Protestant Fugitives, Property, and Politics in
Revolutionary France”
Bryan Banks, Florida Atlantic University
“Refractory Priests in the French Atlantic World”
Erica Johnson, Gordon State College
“Comparative Republican Religion: Eighteenth-Century France and
Twentieth-Century Turkey”
Hakan Gungor, Florida State University
Commentator: Carol Harrison, University of South Carolina
Panel 2C: War and Policy in Europe and the Mediterranean
Panel Sponsored by the Massena Society
Chair: Richard McCaslin, University of North Texas
“The Sambre and Meuse Army and the War for Frontiers, 17941797”
Jordan Hayworth, University of North Texas
“Pitt and the Polish Question”
Nate Jarrett, University of North Texas
“The Bourbon Mediterranean and the droit des gens in Algeria,
1815-1830”
Dzavid Dzanic, Harvard University
Commentator: Peter Hicks, Fondation Napoléon
Panel 2D: History and Literature in Early America
Chair: Rebecca Brannon, James Madison University
“From Mason Weems to Russell Freedman: Changing Views of George
Washington in Children’s Biography”
Margaret Rafferty Nunes, Independent Scholar
“Mrs. Sarah Mifflin: An Eighteenth-Century Colonial Penelope A study
on John Singleton Copley’s Governor and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin”
Deborah Fisher, Penn State University
“Texas’ Great Fear and the Primacy of Property”
4 Daniel Glenn, St. Edwards University
Commentator: Rebecca Brannon, James Madison University
Luncheon: 12:15-2:00pm
Wilson Commerce Ballroom
Luncheon Lecture:
"The Ottoman Revolutionary Moment 1807"
Virginia Aksan, McMaster University
Session 3: 2:15-4:00pm
Panel 3A: Empire and the Sea
Chair: Bill Olejniczak, College of Charleston
“The Haitian Revolution and Francophone Black Identity”
William Alexander, Norfolk State University
“Gateways of Empire: The British Caribbean Periphery in the Age of the
American Revolution”
Ross Nedervelt, Florida International University
Commentator: Bill Olejniczak, College of Charleston
Panel 3B: Tragedy & Triumph: The Western World After Napoleon & the
Congress of Vienna
Chair: Victor-Andre Massena, Fondation Napoléon, Paris
“’One of the Three or Four Perfectly Virtuous Acts Recorded in
the History of Nations’—The British Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave
Trade”
Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
“19th Century France After 1815: Reaction, Revolutions, and Divisions”
Donald H. Barry Tallahassee Community College
“Castlereagh’s Diplomacy and the Future of Europe”
Peter Hicks of the Fondation Napoléon, Paris
Commentator: Alexander Grab, University of Maine
5 Panel 3C: The Early Republic
Chair: Michael Kennedy, High Point University
“How to Gracefully Age in Revolutionary Times: Southern Gentlemen in a
Youthful Age”
Rebecca Brannon, James Madison University
“New York in Flames, New Jersey in Snow: Hessian Impressions of the
American Revolution”
Chris Juergens, Florida State University
“The Failure to Govern Failure”
Chad Holmes, West Virginia University
Comment: Michael Kennedy, High Point University
Panel 3D: The Intersection of Art and Harsh Reality: Ideal and Real Perspectives
on Past and Present in Musical, Literary, and Theatrical Works, 1775-1830
Chair: Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
“Who is Knight?” Rights and Responsibilities from the Early
Romantic Era
Marie Sumner Lott, Georgia State University
“Economic Critiques in Poetry Set to Music”
Lisa Feurzeig, Grand Valley State University
“How the German Popular Novel Learned Not to Live in Its Own
Time and Place”
John Sienicki, Independent Scholar
Commentator: Lisa de Alwis, University of Colorado-Boulder
Afternoon Break: 4:00-4:15pm
Session 4: 4:15pm-6:00pm
Panel 4A: Revolution and Violence
Chair: Jack Censer, Emeritus, George Mason University
6 “The Ideological Labryinth on the Road to Clichy: Boissy d’Anglas,
Mathieu Dumas, and the Violent Momentum of the French Revolution”
Will Little, University of Mississippi
“Containing the Revolution: Labor, Poor Houses, and the Mob”
Senya Lubisich, Citrus College
Comment: Margaret Crosby, Columbia University
Panel 4B: “Intrigue and Intellectuals: Condemning and Constructing Hispanic
Revolutions and Revolutionaries”
Chair: Renzo Honores, High Point University
“George Dawson Flinter’s Colonial Dystopia: Britons and Venezuelan
Independence, 1819”
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University
“Hispanic Revolutions, 1808-1848”
Scott Eastman, Creighton University
“International Intervention in the ‘Little Civil War’ in Portugal, 1847”
Enrico Magnani, United Nations
Commentator: Renzo Honores, High Point University
Panel 4C: Strategy and Tactics in the Age of Napoleon:
In Memoriam of Jack Sigler
Chair: Kenneth Johnson
“Paul Thiebault and Counter Insurgency Manual”
Ruth Godfrey
“Prussian War Plans against Austria and France during the Polish-Saxon
Crisis”
Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas
“The Napoleonic Wars in the Middle East”
Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
Commentator: Mark Gerges, United States Army Command and General
Staff College
7 Audience Discussion
Panel 4D: Napoleonic Italy
Chair: John Gill, National Defense University
“Napoleon and Public Health Policies: Vaccination against Small Pox in
Northern Italy”
Alexander Grab, University of Maine
“Surviving Napoleon: Small Town Strategies during the Piacentino
Insurrection 1805-1806,”
Doina Harsyani, Central Michigan University
Comment: John Gill, National Defense University
Dinner on your own
6:00-6:30pm Shuttle buses from High Point University, Phillips Hall to hotels.
8:15-8:45pm Shuttle buses from hotels to Wanek Center, High Point University
9:00pm-11:15pm Friday Night Movie: Waterloo (1972)
Extraordinaire Theater, Wanek Center, High Point University
Saturday 21 February
7:45-10:00am Shuttle Buses from hotels to High Point University, Phillips Hall
Session 5: 8:30am-10:15am
Panel 5A: Race, Gender, and Revolutions in Politics and Commerce
Chair: Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University
“Wives, Widows, and Merchants: Women and Transatlantic Commerce”
Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia
“Race, Gender, & Revolution: The Torture of Suzanne Simone Baptiste,
Madame Toussaint Louverture”
Robin Mitchell, DePaul University
8 “Negro Blotters and Petty Accounts: Market Transformations and the Slaves’
Economy in South Carolina Cotton Country, 1793-1837”
Erika Bruchko, Emory University
Commentator: Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University
Panel 5B: "Napoleon and the Cisalpine Republic: Life and Politics in North Italy
1796-1802"
Chair: Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University
“The Constitutions, Treaties and Policies of the Cisalpine Republic"
Philip Cuccia, Independent Scholar
"The Politicization of Theater in the Cisalpine Republic."
Lenora Cuccia, Independent Scholar
"’With the sound of the violins, always death to the Jacobins’:
Opposition to the French and their supporters in Cisalpine Italy"
Ciro Paoletti, Commissione Italiana di Storia Militare
Commentator: Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University
Panel 5C: An Atlantic Paradox: The Presbyterian Struggle with Slavery
Chair: Joseph S. Moore, Gardner-Webb University
William Harrison Taylor, “‘Made of one flesh?’: Revisiting the 1787
Slavery Policy of the Synod of New York and Philadelphia.”
Peter C. Messer, “A Blessing or a Curse, Depending on How it is Used:
David Ramsay’s Presbyterian Improvement and Slavery”
Gideon Mailer, “Presbyterian Moral Philosophies, Slavery, and the
coming of the American Civil War.”
Commentator: Dr. Joseph S. Moore, Gardner-Webb University
Panel 5D: A New Political System: Coercion and Forms of Opposition under the
Empire and Restoration
Chair: Jean-David Avenel, Université de Paris Est-Créteil
9 “Notables and Political Constraints under the First Empire”
Adeline Beaurepaire-Hernandez, Paris-Sorbonne University
“A Motion for Heredity: Napoleonic Justifications for the Creation of the
Empire, 1803-1804”
Richard Siegler, Florida State University
Constraint and The Recomposition of Liberal Forms of Association (18141830)
Vivien Faraut, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Commentator: Xavier Marechaux, SUNY- Old Westbury
Morning Break: 10:15-10:30am
Session 6: 10:30am-12:15pm
Panel 6A: The Old in the New: Civil Liberties in Small Spaces
Chair: Niels Eichhorn, Middle Georgia State College
“‘Revenons à nos anciens usages’. Radical liberal thinking and the Ancient
Constitution in the Belgian Revolution (1830)”
Brecht Deseure, Independent Scholar
“Regeneration: The Case for a hybrid understanding of Swiss liberalism”
Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi
“A fantastic thing”: Liberty in Constitutional Traditions
Janet Polasky, University of New Hampshire
‘The Persistence of Old Traditions in the Netherlands Staten-General after
1813’
Henk te Velde, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Questions from Audience
Panel 6B: Enlightened Thought and Moral Sentiment
Chair: Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
“Most Humane and Effectual Punishment We Have” Moral Sentiment
and the Eighteenth Century British Convict Trade
Nicole Dressler, Northern Illinois University
10 “The Corsican and the Magistrate from Bordeaux: Napoleon and the
Political Thought of Montesquieu”
Zachary Stoltzfus, Florida State University
Comment: Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
Panel 6C: Chair: Religion and the French Revolution
Chair: Charles MacKay, West Virginia University
“God and Mammon and the Nation: Nationalizing Church Property in
Revolutionary France”
Joseph Harmon, Florida State University
“Adrienne Lafayette Defender of the Faith”
Thomas Thomas, Florida State University
“Theological Crisis in the French Revolution: Clergymen Debate the Civil
Constitution”
Katrina Wheeler, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Comment: Charles MacKay, West Virginia University
Panel 6D: The British Army in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Scott Hileman, Martin Methodist College
“Networks of Knowledge Mobility Within Eighteenth Century British
Imperial Militarism”
Huw J. Davies, King’s College, London
“Not Just Dry Books of Tactics: Social Influences on American and British
Light Infantry Regulations in the Early Nineteenth Century”
Michael A. Bonura, Independent Scholar
“British Lessons in Counterinsurgency and Punitive Expeditions, 17981857”
Bruce Collins, Sheffield Hallam University
Commentator: Scott Hileman, Martin Methodist College
Lunch on campus: 12:15pm-2:00pm
11 Choose any campus dining facility
Board of Directors Meeting and Lunch: 12:00pm-2:00pm
Wilson Commerce Board Room
Session 7: 2:15pm-4:00pm
Panel 7A: Allies, Armies and Battles: Naples and the Mediterranean 1793–1815
Chair: Dr. Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas
“Deserters, Brigands, and Patriots: the Rebuilding and Reform of the
Neapolitan Army under Joachim Murat, 1808-1815.”
Chad Tomaselli, University of North Texas
“A Coalition of the Willing? British Alliance-Building in the
Mediterranean 1793”
Casey Baker, United States Military Academy
“Murat’s Waterloo: The Battle of Tolentino, 2–3 May 1815”
John H. Gill (Jack), Near East–South Asia Center for Strategic Studies
Commentator: Ciro Paoletti, Commissione Italiana di Storia Militare
Panel 7B: Religion in Central Europe
Chair: Alexander Martin, Notre Dame University
“Hierarchies of Faith: Orthodoxy and the Habsburg State in the
Eighteenth Century Balkans”
Timothy Olin, Purdue University
“Between Vienna, Moscow and Constantinople: Uniates in the Habsburg
Borderlands”
Scott M. Berg, Louisiana State University
“Catholic Revival and the Legacy of the 1848 Revolution in Upper Silesia”
Brendan Karch, Louisiana State University
Commentator: Alexander Martin, Notre Dame University
Panel 7C: The French Caribbean and Revolutionary Political Culture, 1789-1802
12 Chair: Linda Rupert, UNC Greensboro
“A Colonial Media Revolution: The Press in Saint-Domingue, 1789-1793”
Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky
“The French Revolution in the Caribbean: Martinique and Guadeloupe,
1789-1802”
William S. Cormack, University of Guelph
“The French Language of Race during the Revolutionary Era, 1789-1791”
Jeffery Stanley, University of Kentucky
Commentator: Linda Rupert, UNC Greensboro
Afternoon Break: 4:00-4:15pm
Session 8: 4:30pm-6:00pm
Panel 8A: The Congress of Vienna: Bicentennial Perspectives
Chair: Bruce Vandervort, Virginia Military Institute
"The Congress of Vienna: New Contributions and Perspectives"
Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University
"The Continuing Relevance of Enno Kraehe's Congress of Vienna, 18141815 (1983)"
Robert D. Billinger, Jr., Wingate University
"The Congress of Vienna: Perceptions and Perspectives of German
Readers to the 21st Century"
Wolf. D. Gruner, University of Rostock,
Questions from Audience
Panel 8B: Constructing the Enlightenment
Chair: Tom Sosnowski, Emeritus, Kent State University
“Writing the History of the Uncanny in the Enlightenment”
Leslie Tuttle, Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
“The Father of History in the Age of Enlightenment”
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
13 Commentator: Ralph Kingston, Auburn University
Panel 8C: The Strategic Crucible: Conquering America’s Gulf Coast in the
Revolutionary Era
Chair : Kenneth Johnson, Air Command and Staff College
“Galvez, Pollock & Pickles—Architects of Victory on the American
Revolution’s Gulf Coast” by Brian M. DeToy, Essential History
Expeditions
“Faults have been committed in all departments,”An Assessment of
Britain’s Failures at New Orleans, by Kevin D. McCranie, United
States Naval War College
“Mutiny on the Resistance: Royal Marine Officers’ Reactions to and
Consequences from a Sailors’ Protest, Spring 1813”
Donald Bittner, Emeritus, Marine Corps University
Commentator: Kenneth Johnson, Air Command and Staff College
Banquet: 6:15pm-8:15pm
Banquet Presentation:
“1914 and 1815: The Last 18th Century War and the First Modern Peace"
-Paul Schroeder, Emeritus, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
8:30-9:00pm Shuttle buses from High Point University to hotels.
Shuttle buses to and from the Courtyard Marriott will run every 15 minutes.
Shuttle buses to and from Comfort Suites Airport will run every 30 minutes.
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