CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE.
Lecture by David Bell, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions and Professor of History, Princeton University.
Professor Bell is the author of numerous books, among them The First Total War (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), is a general study of the political culture of war in Europe between 1750 and 1815, which showed how an aristocratic culture of limited warfare gave way to a world in which total war was possible—and in which, between 1792 and 1815, it actually took place. In the winter of 2015-16, Oxford University Press published two new books by Bell: Napoleon: A Concise Biography, and an essay collection, Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present. His major current project is a comparative and transnational history provisionally entitled Men on Horseback: Charismatic Authority in the Age of Democratic Revolutions.
