As students of the
eighteenth century know, the United States had no
monopoly on revolutionary ideas. Revolutionary fervor
spread to France, spawning a bloody revolution, and to
England, where it did not. This year, the School of
Continuing and Professional Studies is capitalizing on
Peter Onuf ’s presence in Oxford at the beginning of a
sabbatical leave to present “The Era of Revolution in
Britain, France and America and the Making of the Modern
Western World.” He will lead the seminar with Jeremy
Black, an Oxford University alumnus and Established
Chair in History at Exeter University.
“Jeremy is an incredibly prolific scholar and an
interesting and energetic lecturer,” says Onuf. “This
program should be enormous fun.”
Highlights of the seminar, which runs from August 10-16,
include visits to Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of
the Washingtons in Britain, the meeting house in
Beaconsfield where William Penn joined the Quakers, and
Wroxton Abbey, home of Frederick, Lord North, Prime
Minister of Great Britain during most of the American
Revolution. Participants will live and dine at Oxford
University’s Merton College and have the opportunity to
join Onuf and Black on an optional post-seminar trip to
explore revolutionary Paris.
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The Era of Revolution in Britain, France
and America and the Making of
the
Modern Western World
With Peter Onuf, Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at U.Va. and Jeremy
Black, Oxford University alumnus and Established Chair in
History, Exeter University
August 10-16, 2008 • Merton
College
Oxford University
(with an optional post-program
excursion to Paris August 16-18)
THE 21ST SEMINAR AT OXFORD,
ENGLAND
Palace of Versailles
Auguste Mayer’s 1836 painting of
Trafalgar
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