Rafe Blaufarb

Rafe Blaufarb is full professor of French history at Florida State University, where he also directs the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution. He has published books and articles on subjects including the French army, Bonapartist refugees in the United States, the politics of taxation in early modern Provence, and the invention of modern notions of property during the French Revolution.  His current work explores the politics of state finance during the early years of the French Revolution.

The project

The French Revolution and Capitalism, 1789-1791

Hosting institution:  Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Institut d'Histoire moderne et contemporaine (IHMC)

Fellowship: Directeur d'études associé, FMSH

Selective bibliography

• "Interest as an Enduring Political problem in early Modern France." In Christine Zabel (Ed.), Historicizing Self-Interest in the Atlantic World (pp. 203-220). Routledge, 2021.
• The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property. Oxford University Press, 2016.  Translated into French under the title, L'invention de la propriété privée : une autre histoire de la Révolution. Paris, Ed. Champ-Vallon, 2019.
• "Révolution armée, révolution victorieuse: comprendre la conquête de l'indépendance de l'Amérique Latine." Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, 3, 2018, 175-193.
• The Politics of Fiscal Privilege in Provence, 1540s-1830s. Catholic University Press, 2012.