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SUMMARY:The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Ce
 ntury (France\, United States) - Nicolas Barreyre (EHESS) and Claire Lemer
 cier (Sciences Po) 
DTSTART:20210915T160000Z
DTEND:20210915T170000Z
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CONTACT:Dr AM Price
DESCRIPTION:Over the last three decades\, historians have shown that durin
 g the period of the early republic in the US the state was far more powerf
 ul and proactive than previously thought. Conversely\, in the case of Fran
 ce\, new work has undermined the earlier narrative of triumphant state-bui
 lding under Napoleon. Drawing on these converging historiographies\, Nicol
 as Barreyre and Claire Lemercier will sketch out a history of the modern s
 tate that shuns national exceptionalism.\n\nDuring the early republic in t
 he US the state was more powerful than previously thought. Triumphant stat
 e-building in Napoleonic France was often a rhetorical exercise. The talk 
 will sketch out a history of the modern state that shuns national exceptio
 nalism.
LOCATION: Via Zoom
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