Introduction to the historiographical debate.......................................................................3
Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer, The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the
Modern World (London, 2017), preface.........................................................................3
David Motadel, ‘Global Revolution’, in: David Motadel (ed.), Revolutionary World:
Global Upheaval in the Modern Age (Cambridge, 2021), 1-37......................................3
1848 and the Arab Spring – ‘democratic transitions’?........................................................4
Christopher Clark, ‘Why should we think about the Revolutions of 1848 now?’, London
Review of Books, 41/5 (2019), 12-16............................................................................4
Kurt Weyland, ‘The Arab Spring: Why the Surprising Similarities with the Revolutionary
Wave of 1848?’, Perspectives on Politics 10/4 (2012), 917-934....................................4
Roger Heacock, ‘Comparing Incomparables: The Spring of Peoples and the Fall of
States – 1848 and 2011’, in: Eberhard Kienle and Nadine Sika (eds.), The Arab
Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power (London, 2015), 9-37...............5
French Revolution I: From the beginnings to the proclamation of the Republic..................6
Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer, The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the
Modern World (London, 2017), chapters 1 and 2..........................................................6
H1 France’s World in 1789.......................................................................................6
H2 The Power of the People, 1789-92......................................................................7
Theory and revolution I: Classical philosophical perspectives............................................9
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party [1848, English
translation by Samuel Moore, 1888], chapters 1 and 2..................................................9
H1 Bourgeois and Proletarians.................................................................................9
H2 Proletarians and Communists.............................................................................9
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, 1963, chapter 1, sections 2 and 4; chapter 2, section 1
and beginning of section 2...........................................................................................10
H1.2 The Meaning of Revolution.............................................................................10
H1.4........................................................................................................................ 10
H2.1 The Social Question.......................................................................................11
French Revolution II: The Terror and rise of military regimes...........................................11
Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer, The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the
Modern World (London, 2017), chapters 3 and 4........................................................11
H3 A Republic in Constant Crisis, 1792-94.............................................................11
H4 The Power of the Military, 1794-1799................................................................12
Theory and revolution II: Structures, class and state........................................................14
Charles Tilly, European Revolutions, 1492-1992 (Oxford 1993), 1-20.........................14
Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions. A comparative analysis of France,
Russia and China (Cambridge 1979), 3-42.................................................................15
French Revolution III: Napoleon and the revolutionary heritage.......................................17
Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer, The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the
Modern World (London, 2017), chapter 5, 6 and conclusion.......................................17
H5 From Bonapartist Republic to Napoleonic Empire, 1800-1807..........................17
H6 The Napoleonic Eagle Soars and Finally Plummets, 1808-1815.......................18
Conclusion: Crucible of the Modern World..............................................................19
Theory and revolution III: Recent historiographical perspectives: the global spread of
ideas................................................................................................................................ 19
1
,Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein, ‘Introduction’, in: Keith Michael Baker and Dan
Edelstein, Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of
Revolutions (Stanford, 2015).......................................................................................19
2
, Introduction (p. 1-14)..............................................................................................19
Revolutionizing Revolution (p. 71-102)...................................................................20
David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker, ‘Introduction’, in: David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker (ed.),
Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World (Oxford,
2018), xiii-xxiv.............................................................................................................. 20
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