The French American Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions, 1763-1815

20-21 March 2009

The University of Chicago Center in Paris
European Early American Studies Association
le Centre d’Études Nord-Américaines (EHESS)
le Réseau pour le développement de l'histoire de la jeune Amérique, 1607-1865.

contact for the conference: Allan Potofsky (apotofskyuniv-paris8)
contact for the postgraduate seminar: Paul Cheney (cheneyuchicago)

> program in pdf format

Attention! Le lieu a changé pour le samedi 21: le séminaire se réunit au 54 bd Raspail, salle 524.
Warning: the venue has changed for Sat. 21: the seminar will meet in room 524, at the 54 blvd Raspail building.

program

March 20: The Atlantic Political Economy

At the University of Chicago Center in Paris, 6 rue Thomas Mann, Paris 13e

CHAIR: Marco Platania, (Università di Trieste)

• 9:30: Introduction

I) Workshop: Paths and Practices of Political Economy in the Pre-Revolutionary Epoch

• 9:45-10:15: Bertie Mandelblatt (Université de Montréal), French brandy, French West Indian
  rum and their competition and trade in overlapping Atlantic worlds
• 10:15-10:45: Pierre Gervais, (CENA-EHESS, Université Paris-VIII), The Construction of
  Atlantic (and other) trade: account books as narratives of merchant political economy

Coffee break

• 11:15-11:45: Allan Potofsky (Université Paris-VIII), Paris-on-the-Atlantic: the Early
  "Americanization" of the Parisian Economy, 1763-1804
• 11:45-12:15: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (Columbia University), From Commercial
  Correspondence to Political Network in the Atlantic Revolutions, ca. 1760s-1790s

Lunch

II) Workshop: the Politics and Ideas of Commerce in the Atlantic

• 2-2:30: Loïc Charles (INED), Title to be announced
• 2:30-3pm: Paul Cheney (University of Chicago), Barnave, "l'affaire des colonies" and the
  constitutional monarchy

Refreshments

• 3:30-4pm: Manuela Albertone (Università di Torino), From Jefferson to post-Physiocracy

III) 16h15-17h00 Rountable/Commentary/Discussion with Colin Jones (Queen Mary, University of London) and Peter Onuf (University of Virginia)

March 21: POSTGRADUATE EARLY AMERICA AND ATLANTIC SEMINAR

at the EHESS, room 524, 54 bd Raspail, Paris 6e
9:30 - 12:30

contact and organizer: Paul Cheney (U. of Chicago)

• Felicity Donohoe (University of Glasgow), Native North American Women and Relations
  with European Men in the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative Study Between Southeastern
  and Northeastern Peoples
• Pernille Roge (Cambridge University), A turn from America to Africa: Political Economy and
  the reinvention of France's Atlantic colonial system, 1756-1802
• Rémy Duthille (Université Paris-III, University of Edinburgh), Richard Price, a ‘"citizen of the
  world" in an age of revolutions (1776-1789)
• Matteo Battistini (Università di Bologna), Thomas Paine and the Atlantic Revolution. The
  civilization of commerce and the building of a national society
• Manuel Covo (CENA-EHESS), Commerce et révolutions dans l'espace atlantique, Etats-Unis
  Saint-Domingue, 1784-1806.

Commentary: Paul Cheney, Pierre Gervais, Allan Potofsky, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Bertrand van Ruymbeke, Cécile Vidal