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...book “Making Democracy in the French Revolution,” Livesey focuses on the Directory government of 1795 to 1799. He argues that this final stage of the Revolution, often underestimated by scholars, was actually at the root of the continental European model of democracy...
...Higonnet, a French scholar who has also written on the Revolution, says the book is about how the second half of the Revolution can be considered as the beginnings of a shift from traditional society to a modern liberal market society...
...Livesey is currently teaching a graduate seminar on the French Revolution and the new undergraduate lecture course History 1422, “The World of the French Revolution,” which covers the entire Revolution from its origins to Napoleon’s coup d’etat. The class explores the emergence of political feminism, alternative market economies, and political terror, among other topics...
...very useful as a means of learning about the atmosphere of the French Revolution through art,” says Kevin M. Riley ’08, a student in the course. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Before getting a Ph.D in modern French history at Harvard, Cork-born Livesey studied philosophy and history at the National University of Ireland, where he said that he “slipped into French history” via philosophy...