Conference Program - Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750

CONSORTIUM ON THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA
1750-1850
Post-Napoleonic Settlement and
Challenges of Restoration
25-27 February 2016
Louisiana State University-Shreveport
The cover image is a French anonymous caricature – “La Restitution” - published in 1814. It reflects the
uncertainty regarding the rearrangement of Europe after Napoleon’s downfall and shows the sovereigns and generals
of the Allies taking portions of the map of the Empire. Ferdinand of Spain (#1) is shown carrying off a map of the
entire Iberian Peninsula, saying ‘she’s in a really bad state." The Emperor of Austria (#3) is shown detaching the
Netherlands (Pays Bas) from the map, and has already loaded parts of Poland, Germany, and Italy in the sack while
Venice and Piedmont are in his pocket. The King of Prussia (#2) picks up the pieces of a model castle labeled Erfurt
(location of a secret convention between Napoleon and Tsar Alexander) saying "Wherever you find something good,
you grab it." He has scrolls labeled with additional territories already in his pocket. Louis XVIII (#4) appears weak
and passive while still hoping for territory: "But nevertheless this should be for me." Emperor Alexander of Russia
(#5) hands Louis his crown, saying "Take this now, you can get the rest later" but Alexander keeps the map of France
firmly in his hand. Napoleon (#6) is shown looking stricken and says to the other powers: "Thanks to you, I no
longer have anything." The Duke of Wellington (#7) voices his satisfaction: "For a long time, I”ve been working for
this."
In the background, prominent military and/or political aides to Napoleon are shown deserting his cause and
looking after their own survival. Joachim Murat, Marshal of the Empire and King of Naples (#8), speculates: "Let’s
see what they will leave me." In upper right corner, Cambacérès (#11), accompanied by Philippe Charles of Pavee,
Marquis of Villevieille (#9), and Fulcrand-Jean-Joseph marquis d’Aigrefeuille (#10), is shown slipping out the back
door. D’Aigrefeuille carries a cookbook under his arm and Cambacérès a document labeled "resignation by flight."
Cambacérès and his friends were known for their gastronomic excess, and they did extricate themselves from politics
after Napoleon’s exile by fleeing Paris and returning to the provinces. Here, Villevielle asks "Are we going [to leave]
before they tell us to?", and d’Aigrefeuille says "But from what side?" Cambacérès tells them to "Follow me, I know
this door" and heads through the door marked "back door."
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 2014-2015
Board of Directors
Acting Directors
Directors Emeritus
Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University
David Blackbourn, Vanderbilt University
Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
Jeff Burson, Georgia Southern University
Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University
Denise Davidson, Georgia State University
David Ellis, Augustana College
Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina –
Chapel Hill
Wayne Hanley, West Chester University
Carol Harrison, University of South Carolina
Ralph Kingston, Auburn University
Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas
Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University –
Baton Rouge
Peter C. Messer, Mississippi State University
Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University Shreveport
William Olejniczak, College of Charleston
Christine Pichichero, George Mason University
Mary Robinson, Lourdes University
Frederick Schneid, High Point University
Bruce Vandervort, Virginia Military Institute
†Gordon Bond, Auburn University
Jack Censer, George Mason University
†Owen Connelly, University of South Carolina
Susan Conner, Albion College
Bernard Cook, Loyola University
†Charles Crouch, Georgia Southern University
Ellen Evans, Georgia State University
†Robert Holtman, Louisiana State University
Donald D. Horward, Florida State University
Martha Keber, Georgia College
†Harold T. Parker, Duke University
Karl Roider, Louisiana State University
John Severn, University of Alabama – Huntsville
Warren F. Spencer, University of Georgia
David M. Wess, Samford University
John C. White, University of Alabama – Huntsville
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, 25 February
5:45-6:00 pm
Transportation from hotel to LSUS campus
6:00-7:00 pm
Reception, Noel Memorial Library, LSUS
Conference Registration
7:00-7:15 pm
Opening Remarks
John S. Vassar, Provost, Vice-Chancellor for Academic
Affairs, Louisiana State University Shreveport
Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University
Shreveport
7:15-8:15 pm
Keynote Address:
The Aftermath of War: The Allied Occupation of France, 1815-1818
Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
8:30-8:45 pm
Transportation from LSUS to hotel
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Friday, 26 February
8:00-12:00 pm
Conference Registration
Hilton Convention Center
8:30am - 10:15am
Session 1
Panel 1A, Meeting Room 206:
Defeat and the Military Institution
“The Misfortune of the 5th:” The Battle of Roßbach in French Memory in the Late
Eighteenth Century
Jonathan Abel, Tarrant County College
“The One that Got Away:” Fürst zu Schwarzenberg and the Austrian defeat at Ulm,
1805
Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University
Responding to Military Defeat—The Austrian Case during the French Imperial Era
Jack Gill, Center for Strategic Studies
Chair: Mark T. Gerges, US Army Command and General Staff College
Commentator: Michael Bonura, The Massena Society
Panel 1B, Meeting Room 204:
Humanitarianism after the Enlightenment: Refugees,
Abolitionists, and Migrants in the Habsburg, Ottoman,
German, and Atlantic Worlds
Refugees or Migrants? Flight from the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Timothy Olin, Wabash College
Finding a Home in the Habsburg Empire: Refugees and Émigrés in the Habsburg
Borderlands
Scott Berg, Louisiana State University
Christian Enslavement and Antislavery: Northern German Ransom Networks and the
Slave Trade
Christopher Mapes, Vanderbilt University
Chair: George Williamson, Florida State University
Commentator: Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University
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Panel 1C, Meeting Room 203:
Art in the Revolutionary Age
Jacques-Louis David: From Republican Painter to Canvasser of Empire
Marina Ortiz, Florida State University
Biedermeier at Second Glance: Recovering the Aesthetic Politics of the Early Nineteenth
Century
Michael B. Gross, East Carolina University
History's Overdue Debt to Vigée le Brun extends across Europe to Louisiana and Texas
Betje B. Klier, Latin Gulf South Research
Chair: Jeffrey Burson, Georgia Southern University
Commentator: Thomas C. Sosnowski, Kent State University
Panel 1D, Meeting Room 202:
Napoleon’s Imperial Monarchy
Blacking Out the Friction: The Napoleonic State’s Unapologetic Plunge into Monarchy
vis-à-vis the Uncomfortable Return of Nobility, 1804-1810
Richard Siegler, Florida State University
Bonaparte “roi républicain” and the Clichyite “monarchists”
Peter Hicks, Fondation Napoléon
Napoleon’s Very Extraordinary Domains
Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
Chair: Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
Commentator: Jason Musteen, US Military Academy-West Point
10:15-10:30am
Morning Break
10:30am - 12:15pm
Session 2
Panel 2A, Meeting Room 206:
War and Peace and Finance in the Napoleonic period
Panel sponsored by The Fondation Napoléon
War Finance in Britain and France: Vincent Nolte end the Mexican Piastres Affair
Peter Hicks, Fondation Napoléon
Death, Devastation, and Disruption: The Economic Effects of the Napoleonic Wars on
Portugal
Don Barry, Tallahassee Community College
The Politics of Finance in Napoleonic Italy (1802-1814)
Alexander Grab, University of Maine
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Chair: Victor-André Masséna, Prince d”Essling
Commentator: Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State UniversityShreveport
Panel 2B, Meeting Room 204:
The Importance of Travel in German and French
Thought, 1750-1800
Geography and the Writing of Ancient Histories in France and the Germanies, 17501800
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
Travel and the Origins of German Nationalism
Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University
A Wandering Cosmopolitan: August von Kotzebue’s Travel Writings as Literature and
Politics
George Williamson, Florida State University
Chair: Marsha Frey, Kansas State University
Commentator: Eric McKinley, German Studies Association
Panel 2C, Meeting Room 203:
“The Poor are Always with Us” – Policing and Refining
Urban Poor and the Working Class.
Reexamining the English workhouse during the long 18th century- 1660-1834
William Olejniczak, College of Charleston
Conserving the Social Poor, Eradicating the Economic Poor – Poor “Relief” in Paris and
Mexico City
Efrosenya Lubisich, Citrus College
The Common Man: Alfred Russel Wallace and Exhibitions of Mesmerism Amongst the
Working Class
Sabrina Rae Cervantez, Louisiana State University
Chair: Linda Frey, University of Montana
Commentator: Carol Harrison, University of Southern Carolina
12:15-2:00pm
Luncheon, Ballroom B
Keynote Address: The First American Civil War
Edward F. Countryman, Southern Methodist University
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2:15 - 4:00pm
Session 3
Panel 3A, Meeting Room 206:
Professionals Talk about Logistics: Planning, Logistics,
and Subsidies during Revolutionary Era,
Panel sponsored by The Massena Society
Logistical Crisis, Cowardliness, or Revenge? The Sambre and Meuse Army’s Failure to
Rescue Kehl and Huningue in 1797
Jordan R. Hayworth, University of North Texas
False Start: Britain and Coalition Warfare in 1794
Nate Jarrett, University of North Texas
Wagon and Forage Masters: The Quartermaster Department During the Mexican War
Chris Menking, University of North Texas
Chair: Steve Delvaux, Army University
Commentator: Mark T. Gerges, US Army Command and General Staff
College
Panel 3B, Meeting Room 204:
Aspects of Napoleonic Italy
Maria Carolina and William Bentinck in Sicily
David Laven, University of Nottingham
Restructuring the Geo-Political Map of the Italian Peninsula: from Napoleon to the
Congress of Vienna
Alexander Grab, University of Maine
Between Glory and Good sense: resistance to conscription and the National Guard
experience in the States of Parma 1805
Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Central Michigan University
Chair: Philip Cuccia, The Massena Society
Commentator: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
Panel 3C, Meeting Room 203:
Communities and Individuals in the Age of Revolution
“My principles for my government …are fixed”: The Impact of Independence on the
Relationship between Fathers and Sons in the Age of Revolution”
Travis Jaquess, University of Mississippi
The Support of Her Country: African American Revolutionary War Widows in the
Antebellum South
Ashley K. Schmidt, Tulane University
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The Politics of Charles de Flahaut’s English Marriage
Kirsty Carpenter, Massey University (New Zealand)
Chair: Gary D. Joiner, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
Commentator: Edward F. Countryman, Southern Methodist University
4:00-4:15pm
Afternoon Break
4:15pm-6:00pm
Session 4
Panel 4A, Meeting Room 206:
Waging War upon a Nautical Chart: The Complexity of
Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail
The Cruise of the Great Winter of 1794/5: Genesis of Post-Thermidorian Naval
Strategy
Kenneth Johnson, Air Command and Staff College
“Leaks and Losses:” Admiral Cochrane and the intelligence debacle that helped Britain
lose the Battle of New Orleans
Samantha Cavell, Independent Scholar.
“His Commerce is our true Game:” Lieutenant Nathaniel Nicholson and the Cruise of
the Siren in the War of 1812
Kevin McCranie, US Naval War College
Chair: Karen Reid, Joliet Junior College
Commentator: Brian DeToy, Essential History Expeditions
Panel 4B, Meeting Room 204:
Forming the Nation: Autonomy, Independence, and
Nationalism during the Revolutionary Era in Latin
America
An Examination of Parlamentos as a Tool for Indigenous Autonomy and Independence
in Araucanía, Chile’s southern frontier (1726-1825)
Pilar M. Herr, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Ephemeral Nations Revisited: Rise, Fall, and Legacy of the Central American Federation
(1823-1838)
Marco Cabrera Geserick, Augustana College
Chair: Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi
Commentator: Stephen Webre, Louisiana Tech University
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Panel 4C, Meeting Room 203:
Consequences of War and Revolution in Germany
Aid to the War Distressed: Early Transnational Humanitarian Outreach to Hamburg
and Lübeck
Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University
The South German States, The impact of the Napoleonic Period and the Foundation of
the New Bond of the German Nation at the Congress of Vienna 1815: The German
Confederation – the Peace State of Europe
Wolf D. Gruner, University of Rostock
The Napoleonic Occupation of Bavaria
Greg Tomlinson, Louisiana State University
Chair/Commentator: David Laven, University of Nottingham
Dinner on your own
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Saturday, 27 February
8:30am - 10:15am
Session 5
Panel 5A, Meeting Room 206:
Travel in the Age of Revolution: Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Elisabeth Liebert, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
From New Jersey to Calcutta: The Imperial Journey of Maria Nugent
Chloe Northrop, Southwestern Adventist University
Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
George Williamson, Florida State University
Panel 5B, Meeting Room 204:
“Daring to Question:” Political and Religious discord in
France and Prussia
Defending the Liberal Revolution in France: Mathieu Dumas’s Opposition to War in
1792
William S. Cormack, University of Guelph
The 1830 “Denunciation of Halle”: Faith, Reason, and Academic Freedom in Prussia
David Ellis, Augustana College
Chair: Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, New Jersey City University
Commentator: Peter Park, University of Texas, Dallas
Panel 5C, Meeting Room 203:
“Necessary Evils:” Lawyers and Prostitutes in the
Revolutionary Era
“Hommes des Lois:” The Pre-Revolutionary Career of Six Eminent Jurists
Zachary Stoltzfus, Florida State University
Sexual Regulation and the Legality of Prostitution in the Revolutionary Era
Erik Lewis, Florida State University
Chair: Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University
Commentator: Susan Conner, Albion College
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Panel 5D, Meeting Room 202:
Napoleon and the Operational Art of War: Roundtable
Discussion in Honor of Prof. Donald D. Horward
Jonathan Abel, Tarrant County College
Jack Gill, Center for Strategic Studies
Robert Citino, University of North Texas
Kevin McCranie, US Naval War College
Moderator: Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas
10:15-10:30am
Morning Break
10:30am-12:15pm
Session 6
‘Round Metternich, or, Berko’s Law: The Viennese Art of Disguising
Politics in Music and Theater
Performers:
John Sienicki, speaker
Lisa Feurzeig (Grand Valley State University), soprano
Jim Stevenson (San Diego Master Chorale), tenor
LaWanda Blakeney (Louisiana State University-Shreveport), piano
12:15pm-2:00pm
Lunch on your own
12:15pm-2:00pm
Board of Directors Meeting and Lunch, Meeting Room 201
2:15pm-4:00pm
Session 7
Panel 7A, Meeting Room 206:
The Danish Question in the 19th Century
Denmark after the Vienna Congress: A Small and Poor Country.
Michael Bregnsbo, University of Southern Denmark at Odense
The International Intervention during the First Schleswig-Holstein War or the Beginning
of Military Interposition.
Enrico Magnani, Sapienza – Università di Roma
Chair: Robert Citino, University of North Texas
Commentator: Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University
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Panel 7B, Meeting Room 204:
Colonial World in the Age of Revolution
A Jamaican Planter’s Perspective on the Napoleonic World
Adam Moran, Florida State University
Sorting Fact from Myth in Heroic Tales of the American Revolution: The Search for
Nancy Hart.
Margaret Nunes, Gwinnett County Public Library
The Particulars of Slavery and the Universals of Enlightened Law: Reframing Restoration
in France (1802-1830)
Elyssa Gage, University of Florida
Chair: David Reid, Joliet Junior College
Commentator: Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, New Jersey City University
Panel 7C, Meeting Room 203:
Revolutionary War and Peace
The Cisalpine Republic’s Military: Constant Change within a Stagnant Paradigm
Phillip Cuccia, The Massena Society
The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom: A Study in Failure
Joshua Meeks, University of South Florida
An Impending Peace: Reflections on the Peace of Leoben and Campo Formio in Le
Moniteur
Thomas Thomas, Florida State University
Chair: J. David Markham, International Napoleonic Society
Commentator: Wayne Hanley, West Chester University
Panel 7D, Meeting Room 202:
Napoleon and the Operational Art of War: Roundtable
Discussion in Honor of Prof. Donald D. Horward
Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas
Steve Delvaux, Army University
Mark T. Gerges, US Army Command and General Staff College
Jordan R. Hayworth, University of North Texas
Moderator: Jack Gill, Center for Strategic Studies
4:00-4:15pm
Afternoon Break
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4:15pm-6:00pm
Session 8
Panel 8A, Meeting Room 206:
Roundtable discussion: The French Sea Power during
the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
William Cormack, University of Guelph
Kenneth Johnson, Air Command and Staff College
Moderator: Kevin McCranie, US Naval War College
Panel 8B, Meeting Room 204:
Britain and North America in the 18th Century
Parliament, Policy, and the Opposition: Foreign Policy Opinions of Frederick Lewis’s
Associates during the War of the Austrian Succession.
Hailey Stewart, University of North Texas
The Trials of Colonel Henry Tucker: Loyalty and the American Revolution on the British
Atlantic Periphery.
Ross Michael Nedervelt, Florida International University
Robert Dinwiddie, the Ohio Company and the Origins of the Seven Years War in North
America: Revisions Yet Again in Need of Revising.
Travis Bagley, University of North Texas
Chair: Laura McLemore, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
Commentator: Jeffery R. Hankins, Louisiana Tech University
Panel 8C, Meeting Room 203:
France on the Eve of the Revolution
Preparing to Nationalize: The Biens du Clerge in the Prerevolution.
Joseph Harmon, Florida State University
Conceptions of Martial Strength in the French Enlightenment.
Benjamen Goff, Florida State University
Chair: Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University
Commentator: Jeffrey Burson, Georgia Southern University
6:15pm-8:15pm
Banquet, Ballroom B
Keynote Address: Ideological Aspirations/Ideological Limits in the Age of the
Democratic Revolution, Jack Censer, George Mason University
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Acknowledgements
This conference was made possible with the generous support of the Noel Foundation and the LSUS
Foundation. Special thanks must be given to Robert Leitz (Curator of the James Smith Noel Collection at
Noel Memorial Library), Laura Perdue (Executive Director of LSUS Foundation), John S. Vassar (Provost
& Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs), Larry Anderson (Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences) and
Gary D. Joiner (Head of the Department of History and Social Sciences). The staff of LSUS Continuing
Education Division (Lottie Huckaby and Sharon Treadwell) and of the Shreveport-Bossier City Convention
and Tourism Bureau greatly contributed to the preparations for the conference.
Advice given by Michael Leggiere (University of North Texas), Frederick Schneid (High Point University),
Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University – Baton Rouge), Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State University) and
Marc Lerner (University of Mississippi) has been a great help in the drafting of the conference program.
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