Working from the common database of forty-two images, seven scholars offered their own analyses of the depiction of the Revolutionary crowd. Authors selected and developed what they viewed as the most important themes and questions emerging from these images. An online discussion, (see the discussion section) provided the opportunity for debate and interchange among these scholars. Profiting from these discussions, several of the essayists returned their works as they are now presented here. Excerpts from the discussions are also available in some essays, indicated by the icon labled “Further Discussion.” (See the introductory essay for a more detailed discussion of the development of the project.) The introductory and concluding essays, both by Censer and Hunt are presented separately because the intent is that the material in the conclusions will be more comprehensible after considering the substatitive essays.

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Jack Censer & Lynn Hunt, Introduction: “Imaging the French Revolution: Depictions of the Revolutionary Crowd.”
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Vivian P. Cameron, “Reflections on Violence and the Crowd in the Images of the French Revolution.”
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Jack Censer & Lynn Hunt, “Picturing Violence: Limitations of the Medium and the Makers.”
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Joan B. Landes, “Representing Women in the Revolutionary Crowd.”
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Barbara Day-Hickman, “An Interpretive Study of Prints on the French Revolution.”
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Warren Roberts, “Images of Popular Violence in the French Revolution: Evidence for the Historian?”
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Wayne Hanley,
“The Transmission of Revolutionary Ideals
Through the Art of the Medal.”
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Jack Censer & Lynn Hunt, Conclusions: "Imaging the French Revolution: Depictions of the Revolutionary Crowd."
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