Imaging
the French Revolution—an experiment in digital
scholarship—is
organized in three sections. In essays,
seven scholars— selected
for their previous work on revolutionary images—analyze forty-two
images of crowds and crowd violence in the French Revolution, a
shared on-line archive that provided the starting point for the
project. Offering the most relevant examples and comments from
an on-line forum that took place during the summer of
2003, discussion
highlights an effort by those same scholars to consider
issues of interpretation, methodology, and the
impact of digital media on
scholarship. In many cases, authors incorporated the fruits of
these discussions into their final essays. These instances are
marked for readers with the icon labeled “Further Discussion,” which
provides a link to some of the original excerpts. Finally, images allows
readers to consider the work of the scholars and to draw their
own conclusion. Not only are
readers given access to the same archive as the scholars—an
usual circumstance, particularly for visual studies—but
we also provide an “Image Tool” that permits close
study and comparison of the forty-two images. Furthermore, each
image includes relevant data and is linked to the various places
throughout the site (both discussion and essays) where scholars
discuss it.
For a more detailed explanation of the historiographical and
methodological goals of this project, as well as an appraisal
of its results, please consult the introductory and
concluding essays.
Credits
This web site is a product of the Roy Rosenzweig Center
for History and New Media, George Mason University (CHNM),
with additional funding from the Department
of History, University of California at Los Angeles.
The project
is an extension of Exploring
the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity (available
online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution)
which was published as a combination book and CD-Rom by Penn State
University
Press and
was a co-production of CHNM and the American Social
History Project at the City University of New York, Graduate Center
with additional support from
the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Gould Foundation,
and the Museum
of the French Revolution (Vizille,
France).
Editors: Jack
Censer & Lynn Hunt
Contributors: Vivian
Cameron, Jack Censer, Barbara
Day-Hickman, Wayne
Hanley, Lynn
Hunt, Joan B. Landes, &
Warren Roberts
Consulting Producer: Roy Rosenzweig
Website Design and Development: Mark Jones
Image Tool Development & Programming: Simon
Kornblith
Additional Programming & Development:
Elena Razlogova
Research Assistant: Benjamin Huggins
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