Kenneth Margerison
Biographic Data
| ID | 703630 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Margerison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Margerison |
| SIGNATURE | MARGERISON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
France's Great Indian Misadventure
The French interest in attacking the British in India during the American Revolution was promoted by a variety of individuals with experience and often personal interests on the subcontinent. These individuals convinced the naval minister, Antoine de Sartine, and his successor, Charles de la Croix, marquis de Castries, that the Indian princes were eager to liberate India from British tyranny and with French assistance would launch an uprising to …
Mi Gyung Kim. The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe
Mi Gyung Kim writes that the “balloon fever” following the ascension of the first Montgolfière in 1783 “offers a promising subject in exploring the relationship between science, Enlightenment ideals, the French Revolution, modernity, and the European nation-empires” (8). However, historians interested in “the structural and ideological causes of the French Revolution” have overlooked the impact of this phenomenon (7). To rectify this oversight, K…
Richard Taws. The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France
In this stimulating book, Richard Taws explores what he describes as the provisional or ephemeral art of revolutionary France. Unlike the monumental artistic production associated with French medieval Christianity or that stimulated by the absolute monarchs, the revolutionary era produced little such art as a consequence of the constantly shifting political milieu. According to Taws, this ephemeral art, which included much that traditionally woul…
Rogue diplomacy: Sartine, Saint-Lubin and the French attempt to recover ‘Lost India’, 1776–80
In 1776, eager to recover the French position in India ‘lost’ to the British in the Seven Years’ War but lacking the financial resources necessary to conduct a successful military campaign, the naval minister, Sartine, employed a rogue adventurer, Saint-Lubin, to conclude an alliance with the powerful Marathas who were willing to finance a French military intervention to contest British power in India. Sartine’s plan developed just as the foreign…
French Visions of Empire: Contesting British Power in India after the Seven Years War
Britain’s decisive victory in the Seven Years War destroyed much of the French empire in North America and seriously weakened the French position in India, resulting in the demise of the authority of the Compagnie des Indes in 1769. Despite the devastating results of defeat, the French royal government began laying plans to challenge Britain’s global power. The French position in India, however, was quite weak. Pondichéry, the principal French es…
Traumatic Politics: The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution
Journal Article Traumatic Politics: The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution Get access Traumatic Politics: The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution. By Barry M. Shapiro. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2009. x + 204 pp. £53.95. ISBN: 978 0 271 03542 0. Kenneth Margerison Kenneth Margerison Texas State University-San Marcos Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Commercial Liberty, French National Power, and the Indies Trade After the Seven Years' War
The French monarchy's determination to suspend the trading rights of the Compagnie des Indes in 1769 stimulated a lively public debate over the establishment of commercial liberty in the Indies trade. Since mid-century, Vincent de Gournay and his disciples had advocated increased liberty in French commerce, and the Compagnie des Indes' privileged trading monopoly offered a tempting target for these reformers. Working on behalf of the ministry, th…
The Shareholders’ Revolt at the Compagnie des Indes: Commerce and Political Culture in Old Regime France
During the 1760s a fierce political struggle developed between the shareholders and the royal ministry over the administration and continued operations of the Compagnie des Indes. Portraying themselves as members of a self-governing commercial republic, the shareholders insisted that ultimate authority rested with their assembly and accused the ministry of despotic interference in company affairs. The ministry, concerned with the financial stabil…
Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799
Revolt in Prerevolutionary France: The Prince de Conti's Conspiracy against Louis XV, 1755-1757 . John D. Woodbridge
Political pamphlets, the society of thirty, and the failure to create a discourse of national reform during the French pre-revolution, 1788–1789
(1993). Political pamphlets, the society of thirty, and the failure to create a discourse of national reform during the French pre-revolution, 1788–1789. History of European Ideas: Vol. 17, No. 2-3, pp. 215-244
The Movement for the Creation of a Union of Orders in the Estates General of 1789
THE MOVEMENT FOR THE CREATION OF A UNION OF ORDERS IN THE ESTATES GENERAL OF 1789 Get access KENNETH MARGERISON KENNETH MARGERISON * The author is Professor of History at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Significant research for this essay was undertaken as part of a 1987 NEH Summer Seminar held at the Newberry Library in Chicago An earlier version was read at the Conference of the Society for French Historical Studies which wa…
History, Representative Institutions, and Political Rights in the French Pre-Revolution (1787-1789)
By the late eighteenth century, history as an intellectual discipline had a well-deserved reputation for being unsupportive of the absolutist policies of the French monarchy. As Orest Ranum has demonstrated, Richelieu and especially Colbert made a concerted effort in the seventeenth century to create a favorable image of their monarchs through the work of the pensioned royal historiographers.1 Nevertheless, some nominally royalist historians, as …
P.-L. Roederer: Political Thought and Practice during the French Revolution Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 73, part 1)
P.-L. Roederer has been known principally for his role in escorting the French king to the Legislative Assembly on 10 Aug. 1792 & for assisting in the coup d’etat of brumaire. Recent historians, however, have come to discover that Roederer’s career was long, varied, & significant. This study of Roederer’s political thought & practice during the decade of the French Revolution places some of these recent findings of his career in the broader conte…
P.-L. Roederer: Political Thought and Practice during the French Revolution
P.-L. Roederer: The Industrialist Capitalist as Revolutionary
THE SOCIAL COMPOSITION and political interests of France's Third Estate in 1789 have attracted considerable attention from historians seeking an understanding of the origins of the Revolution. For instance, the Marxist historians have argued that the Third was in effect Marx's revolutionary bourgeoisie taking control of France from a decadent feudal aristocracy.1 Alfred Cobban seriously compromised this explanation when he demonstrated that those…
French Visions of Empire: Contesting British Power in India after the Seven Years War
Britain’s decisive victory in the Seven Years War destroyed much of the French empire in North America and seriously weakened the French position in India, resulting in the demise of the authority of the Compagnie des Indes in 1769. Despite the devastating results of defeat, the French royal government began laying plans to challenge Britain’s global power. The French position in India, however, was quite weak. Pondichéry, the principal French es…
History, Representative Institutions, and Political Rights in the French Pre-Revolution (1787-1789)
By the late eighteenth century, history as an intellectual discipline had a well-deserved reputation for being unsupportive of the absolutist policies of the French monarchy. As Orest Ranum has demonstrated, Richelieu and especially Colbert made a concerted effort in the seventeenth century to create a favorable image of their monarchs through the work of the pensioned royal historiographers.1 Nevertheless, some nominally royalist historians, as …
P.-L. Roederer: Political Thought and Practice during the French Revolution
P.-L. Roederer: The Industrialist Capitalist as Revolutionary
THE SOCIAL COMPOSITION and political interests of France's Third Estate in 1789 have attracted considerable attention from historians seeking an understanding of the origins of the Revolution. For instance, the Marxist historians have argued that the Third was in effect Marx's revolutionary bourgeoisie taking control of France from a decadent feudal aristocracy.1 Alfred Cobban seriously compromised this explanation when he demonstrated that those…
P.-L. Roederer: Political Thought and Practice during the French Revolution Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 73, part 1)
P.-L. Roederer has been known principally for his role in escorting the French king to the Legislative Assembly on 10 Aug. 1792 & for assisting in the coup d’etat of brumaire. Recent historians, however, have come to discover that Roederer’s career was long, varied, & significant. This study of Roederer’s political thought & practice during the decade of the French Revolution places some of these recent findings of his career in the broader conte…
P.-L. Roederer: Political Thought and Practice during the French Revolution
History, Representative Institutions, and Political Rights in the French Pre-Revolution (1787-1789)
By the late eighteenth century, history as an intellectual discipline had a well-deserved reputation for being unsupportive of the absolutist policies of the French monarchy. As Orest Ranum has demonstrated, Richelieu and especially Colbert made a concerted effort in the seventeenth century to create a favorable image of their monarchs through the work of the pensioned royal historiographers.1 Nevertheless, some nominally royalist historians, as …
The Movement for the Creation of a Union of Orders in the Estates General of 1789
THE MOVEMENT FOR THE CREATION OF A UNION OF ORDERS IN THE ESTATES GENERAL OF 1789 Get access KENNETH MARGERISON KENNETH MARGERISON * The author is Professor of History at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Significant research for this essay was undertaken as part of a 1987 NEH Summer Seminar held at the Newberry Library in Chicago An earlier version was read at the Conference of the Society for French Historical Studies which wa…
Political pamphlets, the society of thirty, and the failure to create a discourse of national reform during the French pre-revolution, 1788–1789
(1993). Political pamphlets, the society of thirty, and the failure to create a discourse of national reform during the French pre-revolution, 1788–1789. History of European Ideas: Vol. 17, No. 2-3, pp. 215-244
Revolt in Prerevolutionary France: The Prince de Conti's Conspiracy against Louis XV, 1755-1757 . John D. Woodbridge
Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799
The Shareholders’ Revolt at the Compagnie des Indes: Commerce and Political Culture in Old Regime France
During the 1760s a fierce political struggle developed between the shareholders and the royal ministry over the administration and continued operations of the Compagnie des Indes. Portraying themselves as members of a self-governing commercial republic, the shareholders insisted that ultimate authority rested with their assembly and accused the ministry of despotic interference in company affairs. The ministry, concerned with the financial stabil…
Commercial Liberty, French National Power, and the Indies Trade After the Seven Years' War
The French monarchy's determination to suspend the trading rights of the Compagnie des Indes in 1769 stimulated a lively public debate over the establishment of commercial liberty in the Indies trade. Since mid-century, Vincent de Gournay and his disciples had advocated increased liberty in French commerce, and the Compagnie des Indes' privileged trading monopoly offered a tempting target for these reformers. Working on behalf of the ministry, th…
Traumatic Politics: The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution
Journal Article Traumatic Politics: The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution Get access Traumatic Politics: The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution. By Barry M. Shapiro. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2009. x + 204 pp. £53.95. ISBN: 978 0 271 03542 0. Kenneth Margerison Kenneth Margerison Texas State University-San Marcos Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
French Visions of Empire: Contesting British Power in India after the Seven Years War
Britain’s decisive victory in the Seven Years War destroyed much of the French empire in North America and seriously weakened the French position in India, resulting in the demise of the authority of the Compagnie des Indes in 1769. Despite the devastating results of defeat, the French royal government began laying plans to challenge Britain’s global power. The French position in India, however, was quite weak. Pondichéry, the principal French es…
Rogue diplomacy: Sartine, Saint-Lubin and the French attempt to recover ‘Lost India’, 1776–80
In 1776, eager to recover the French position in India ‘lost’ to the British in the Seven Years’ War but lacking the financial resources necessary to conduct a successful military campaign, the naval minister, Sartine, employed a rogue adventurer, Saint-Lubin, to conclude an alliance with the powerful Marathas who were willing to finance a French military intervention to contest British power in India. Sartine’s plan developed just as the foreign…
Richard Taws. The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France
In this stimulating book, Richard Taws explores what he describes as the provisional or ephemeral art of revolutionary France. Unlike the monumental artistic production associated with French medieval Christianity or that stimulated by the absolute monarchs, the revolutionary era produced little such art as a consequence of the constantly shifting political milieu. According to Taws, this ephemeral art, which included much that traditionally woul…
Mi Gyung Kim. The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe
Mi Gyung Kim writes that the “balloon fever” following the ascension of the first Montgolfière in 1783 “offers a promising subject in exploring the relationship between science, Enlightenment ideals, the French Revolution, modernity, and the European nation-empires” (8). However, historians interested in “the structural and ideological causes of the French Revolution” have overlooked the impact of this phenomenon (7). To rectify this oversight, K…
France's Great Indian Misadventure
The French interest in attacking the British in India during the American Revolution was promoted by a variety of individuals with experience and often personal interests on the subcontinent. These individuals convinced the naval minister, Antoine de Sartine, and his successor, Charles de la Croix, marquis de Castries, that the Indian princes were eager to liberate India from British tyranny and with French assistance would launch an uprising to …
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