Readings for next week

Monday, 2/2:

1. Mason & Rizzo, pp. 32 - 48
2. Colin Lucas, "Nobles, Bourgeois and the Origins of the French Revolution," Past and Present, No. 60 (August 1973), pp. 84 - 126.
   

Wednesday, 2/4:

1. Mason & Rizzo, pp. 29 - 32
2. Dale Van Kley, "New Wine in Old Wineskins: Continuity and Rupture in the Pamphlet Debate of the French Prerevolution, 1787 - 1789," French Historical Studies, volume 17, number 2 (Autumn 1991), pp. 447 - 465.

Both of the articles can be found on JSTOR. You usually need to sign in with your GMU ID to read articles on JSTOR, so I'm not sure if the links above will work. If they don't take you directly to the article, then you'll need to navigate JSTOR on your own; it should be fairly straightforward, since you have all the bibliographic information above. Let me know if you're having problems with the database.

If you take careful notes, then you don't need to print these articles out. I will expect you to be able to answer questions about them in class, however (hint, hint). Make sure you understand each author's argument and note what sorts of evidence he uses to bolster his claims.

Specifically regarding the Lucas article: don't get too bogged down trying to remember all the different historians' names. Do pay attention, however, as Lucas maps out the various schools of thought concerning the social origins of the Revolution.