{"id":678,"date":"2022-06-13T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T10:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=678"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T10:31:25","slug":"leverhulme-fellowship-success-for-dr-anna-plassart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Leverhulme Fellowship success for Dr. Anna Plassart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Senior Lecturer in History Dr. Anna Plassart has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a new monograph, entitled\u00a0<b>The Enlightenment and the idea of national independence, 1750-1815.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>While the French Revolution is traditionally seen as the starting point of &#8220;nationalist&#8221; movements in the 19th\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">century, this project recasts the late eighteenth century as the end point of earlier debates about the idea of<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">national independence. Looking at case studies of Corsica, Poland, the United States and Haiti, it argues that\u00a0Enlightenment writers identified several contemporary independence movements as fundamental challenges to the existing international order. Far from emerging from the French Revolution, it shows, these early debates about national independence were in fact discredited by the French state\u2019s use of the language of self-determination to justify\u00a0aggressive foreign policies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plassart-photo_IASH.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plassart-photo_IASH-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plassart-photo_IASH-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plassart-photo_IASH.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer in History Dr. Anna Plassart has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a new monograph, entitled\u00a0The Enlightenment and the idea of national independence, 1750-1815. While the French Revolution is traditionally seen as the starting point of &#8220;nationalist&#8221; movements in the 19th\u00a0century, this project recasts the late eighteenth century as the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=678\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leverhulme Fellowship success for Dr. Anna Plassart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}