48th Annual Conference of the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 22-24 February 2018 Hilton Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing 201 South Christopher Columbus Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19106 Consortium of the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 22-24 February 2018 West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Host Thursday 22 February 2018 Registration: 3:00-6:00 pm (Foyer of Ballroom A) Welcome Reception: 5:30-7:00 pm (Foyer of Ballroom A) Opening Keynote Address: 7:00 pm (Ballroom A) Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University) “‘The Governor who must be wise and good’? Ideas of Leadership in the British Literature of the Revolutionary Era” Friday 23 February 2018 Session 1 8:30-10:15 (5 panels) 1A “Exile, Identity, and the Mediterranean” Chair: Selena Anders (University of Notre Dame School of Architecture in Rome) Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) “Becoming an exile: Mario Pieri and the Greek Revolution from the Italian shores” Glauco Schettini (Fordham University) “Revolution across the Sea: Italy, the Mediterranean, and the ‘Republic of Mankind’, 1796–1799” David Laven (University of Nottingham) “The Idea of the Venetian Mediterranean and Mediterranean Venice in the post-Napoleonic Era” Commenter: Ralph Kingston (Auburn University) 1B “Imperial Ambitions and Strategies: France and Britain 1790-1815” Chair: Xavier Marechaux, SUNY-Oldwestbury Dzavid Dzanic (Austin Peay State University) “Corsairs, French Empire, and International Law in Tunisia, 1789- 1815” Christopher T. Golding (Temple University) “The ‘Smallspot in the Ocean’: British Imperial-Maritime Strategy, 1793-1815” Commenter: Stephen Hague (Rowan University) 1C “Producing and Defining Identities in Colonial and Revolutionary North America, Part I” Chair: Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley (Montclair State University) J. Patrick Mullins (Marquette University) “‘The unlicked Cub of Forty-One’: Refighting the English Civil War in Colonial New England’s Public Memory” Abby Chandler (University of Massachusetts Lowell) “’Let us unanimously lay aside foreign Superfluities’: Textiles, Subjecthood and Politics in the pre-Revolutionary British Empire” Commenter: Peter C. Messer (Mississippi State University) 1D “Loyalty and Conflict: German Monarchy in an Uncertain Europe, 1715-1763” Chair: David Ellis (Augustana College) William P. Tatum, III (Duchess County (NY) Historian) “‘His Majesty’s pleasure was Signifyd as follows’: George I’s Impact on the British Military Justice System” Alexander Burns (West Virginia University) “‘We could not serve anywhere better than under the King’: Common Soldiers and Frederick II of Prussia” Rita Krueger (Temple University) "Monarchs and Mercenaries: The Trencks in the Age of Revolution" Commenter: Sam Mustafa (Ramapo College) 1E “Operations in Napoleonic Warfare” Chair: Jordan Hayworth (USAF Air Command & Staff College) Phillip Cuccia (US Army War College) "River Crossings and Pursuit: the Bassano Campaign from Rovereto to San Georgio, September 1796" Mark Gerges (US Army Command & General Staff College) "Wellington and Crossing the Douro in 1813: Maneuver in Inhospitable Terrain" Michael Leggiere (University of North Texas) "Blücher and the Crossing of the Elbe at Wartenburg in 1813: The Challenges of Attacking an Unassailable Position" Commenter: Jonathan Abel (US Army Command & General Staff College) Break 10:15-10:30 Session 2 10:30-12:15 (6 panels) 2A Roundtable: “‘Declarations of Rights’: Inequalities Born in Ages of Democratic Revolutions” Chair: Laurel Ulrich (Harvard University) Jack Censer (George Mason University) Janet Polasky (University of New Hampshire) Marcela Echeverri (Yale University) Jennifer Rittenhouse (George Mason University) Commenter: Audience 2B “Franco-American Diplomacy and Exchange in the Age of Revolution” Chair: Lloyd Kramer (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Presenter A: Elizabeth Cross (Florida State University) “Navigating Neutrality: Edmond Genêt and the Ordeal of the Compagnie des Indes in Philadelphia, 1793-1794” Presenter B: Manuel Covo (University of California–Santa Barbara) “Why Did France Want Louisiana Back (1795-1800)?” Presenter C: Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State University) “The French Revolution and America’s Manifest Destiny” Commenter: Pernille Røge (University of Pittsburgh) 2C “European Responses to the Continental System: Shock, Resilience and Civil Adjustment: A Panel in Remembrance and Honor of Geoffrey Ellis” Chair: Katherine B. Aaslestad (West Virginia University) Hilde Greefs (University of Antwerp) “Resilience or Disruption? The Maritime Trade Community in Antwerp, 1795-1817” Johan Joor (Huygens Institute) “A Tale of Two Cities: Rotterdam and Amsterdam during a Time of Turmoil and Crises Urban Resilience and Consequences of the Napoleonic Continental Blockade, 1806-1813” Michael Rowe (King’s College London) “The End of Napoleon’s Continental System and the Beginnings of Political Mobilization in Restoration Europe, 1814 to 1820” Commenter: Alex Grab (University of Maine) 2D “Emigrants and Authority in the Age of Revolutions” Chair: Gabriella Angeloni (University of South Carolina) Patrick Harris (Rutgers University) “‘Les Vrais Émigrés’: Policing Exile in the Revolutionary Caribbean” Mary Ashburn Miller (Reed College) “Reintegrating the Emigrant: Surveillance and the Napoleonic State” Sydney Watts (University of Richmond) “French Emigration across the English Channel, 1791-1804: Policing the Resettlement on the Franco-British Island of Jersey” Erik Braeden Lewis (Florida State University) “Citoyenne or Émigrée? The Countess du Barry in London, 1791- 93” Commenter: Don Sutherland (University of Maryland) 2E “Producing and Defining Identities on the North American Frontier, Part II” Chair: Vivian Bruce Conger (Ithaca College) Elizabeth Kiszonas (University of Arkansas) “Westward Empire: George Berkeley in Revolutionary America” Jay Donis (Lehigh University) “Dual Identities: The Growth of Nationalism and Provincialism in Revolutionary Kentucky” Chad R. Holmes (West Virginia University) “Regulating Opportunity and Failure: Antebellum Sheriff Sales in the Ohio River Valley, 1830-1850” Commenter: Billy Smith (Montana State University) 2F Pedagogical Roundtable: “Leading the Revolution in Historical Pedagogy: Using Role Playing Games from Reacting to the Past to Teach the Revolutionary Era.” Chair: James Scythes (West Chester University) Eleanor H. McConnell (Frostburg State University) Mary K. Robinson (Lourdes University) Commenter: Audience Friday Lunch (12:30-2:15) Ballroom A Luncheon Address: Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Rutgers University), “The Founding of a Nation Through the Eyes of the Enslaved” Session 3 2:30-4:15 (6 panels) 3A “Transnational Race and Slavery in the Revolutionary Era” Chair: Bill Olejniczak (College of Charleston) Jeffery Stanley (Dalton State College) “Remaking a Slave Society: The Concordats of 1791 and the Free People of Color’s Challenge to White Supremacy” Jeremy Popkin (University of Kentucky) “Jacobin, Journalist, Abolitionist: The Strange Story of Milscent Créole” Erika Denise Edwards (University of North Carolina-Charlotte) “A Birth of a Nation: Free Womb Acts in the Americas during the Age of Revolution” Anne Kerth (Princeton University) “‘Of the First in Importance’: Enslaved Artisans on the Antebellum Plantation” Commenter: John Garrigus (University of Texas-Arlington) 3B “Recent Trends in Art and Architecture of the Napoleonic Era & Beyond: Paris-Rome” Chair: John Lambertson, Washington and Jefferson College Selena Anders (University of Notre Dame School of Architecture in Rome) “From Paris to Rome: Giuseppe Valadier and Urban Planning under Napoleon” Dorothy Johnson (University of Iowa) “Jacques-David, Napoleon and the Problematics of Embodiment” Simone Zurawski (DePaul University) “On the Revival of National History Painting in the Restoration: The ‘Heroic’ Saint Vincent de Paul in Iconographie, 1817 to 1824” David O’Brien (University of Illinois) “Summation & Overview of Trends in Napoleonic Art & Architecture … Future Directions” Commenter: Audience 3C “Petitionary Practices and Protest in the Age of Revolution: Ruptures and Continuities” Part I Chair: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University) Philip Baltuskonis (University of Mississippi) “‘These indisputable precepts of the Rights of Man’: Revolutionary Wives and Their Petitions in Late Colonial New Granada” Joris Oddens (Leiden University) “The Petitioning Industry: Petitions for Jobs, Delegated Writing, and Patronage in the Batavian Republic” David Zaret (Indiana University–Bloomington) “The Duke’s Agents and the 1831 Anti-Reform Petitions from Northumberland” Commenter: Janet Polasky (University of New Hampshire) 3D “Officers and Soldiering in North America: Observations and Experiences Leading and Supplying the Revolutionary Army in America” Chair: Colin J. Williams (US Army Center of Military History) Rachel Engl (Lehigh University) “Creating A League of Gentleman: The Culture of the Continental Army Officer Corps” Cody Nager (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “‘The Manners of the Good Republicans’: French Officers’ Changing Impressions of the United States after the Battle of Yorktown” Steve Gimber (West Chester University) “‘Heads out, hoops off, casks open, and flour wasting’: The Struggle to Supply the Continental Army with Wheat and Flour” Commenter: Leo J. Daugherty III (Senior Command Historian, US Army Cadet Command and Fort Knox) 3E “The German Way of War: Military Theory and Practice during the Russian Campaign of 1812” Chair: John H. Gill, National Defense University Vanya Eftimova Bellinger