Reciprocity in the French Revolution

In this talk, Walton will discuss how the concept of reciprocity (in its reified, noun form réciprocité) emerged in the Enlightenment and was invoked to work through modern problems: political economy, rights, and citizenship. It was in the twentieth century that the term fell out of the modern/democratic lexicon to become associated with pre-modern societies.
Charles Walton, an historian of the French Revolution, is the author of Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech (Oxford, 2011).

Sponsored by the Department of History.

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