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Fall 2000

TEMS started as a reading group. Its original objectives and lines of inquiry can be found here:

• •  Michel Foucault, “On Governmentality” in Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller, eds. The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991,87-104.
  •  Keith Baker, “A Foucaldian French Revolution?” in Jan Goldstein, ed. Foucault and the Writing of History Cambridge Mass and Oxford: Blackwell, 1994, 187-205.
  •  Jay Caplan, In the King's Wake: Post-Absolutist Culture in France. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1999.
  •  Alfred O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests : Political Arguments for Capitalism before its Triumph
  •  Lawrence Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness:   Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England
  •  Daniel Gordon, Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Spring 2001

Anna Clark, History, University of Minnesota
"Introduction,” from “Petticoat Scandals: Engendering British Politics, 1763-1821,” subsequently published as Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (Princeton University Press, 2003).

J.B. Shank, History, University of Minnesota
“Making Public Discourse in France at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century”

Susan Amussen, History, Union Institute and University
“‘They persuade people in England to anything': Lessons from Jamaica, 1660-1700."
Co-sponsored with the University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History

David Underdown, History, Yale University
“Revisiting Inversion in Early Modern England”
Co-sponsored with the University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History

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