Books
The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810 (Berkeley: UC Press, 1991).
Edited Books
Co-editor with Peter Sahlins: Mobility in France: Special Issue of French Historical Studies (forthcoming: summer 2006).
Co-Editor with Robert Post, Human Rights in Political Transitions: Gettysburg to Bosnia (New York: Zone Books, 1999).
Editor: Practices of Enlightenment, special issue of Representations, no. 61 (spring 1997).
Co-editor with Thomas Laqueur, National Cultures Before Nationalism, special issue of Representations, no. 47 (summer 1994).
Co-editor with Barbara Diefendorf: Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (University of Michigan Press, 1993).
Co-editor with R. Howard Bloch, Future Libraries, special issue of Representations, no. 42 (spring 1993).
- Revised and reissued in paperback as Future Libraries, Bloch and Hesse, eds. (Berkeley: UC Press, 1995).
Co-editor with Laura Mason: Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Songsheets and Periodicals of the French Revolutionary Era in the Princeton University Library (New York: Garland Press, 1989).
Articles and Book Chapters
"La Révolution française et Changement Sociale: Vers un Nouveau Ordre Bourgeois? La Vue des U.S.A." Actes du Colloque de l'Université du Lille 3 (forthcoming).
"Devenir Républicaine et Historienne: Louise de Kéralio," Nicole Pellegrin, ed., Histoires d'Historiennes (Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, forthcoming 2006).
"Toward a New Topography of Enlightenment," European Historical Review (forthcoming).
"Introduction," (with Peter Sahlins) Mobility in France: Special Issue of French Historical Studies (forthcoming: Summer: 2006).
"The New Empiricism," Cultural History and Socal History (2004) 1: 201-207. (Polish translation, forthcoming).
"Roche on the Move," French Historical Studies (Fall: 2005).
"Revolutionary Rousseaus: The Story of His Editions After 1789," in Marie-Christine Stuncke, Media and Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Kungl, Vitterhets Historie Och Antikvitets Akademien: Stockholm, 2005): 105-128.
"Print Culture in the Enlightenment," in The Enlightenment World, Ian McCallman ed. (New York: Blackwell, 2005).
"Women and the Enlightened Republic of Letters," in Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor, eds. Feminism and the Enlightenment (London: Palegrave, 2005).
"The Rise of Intellectual Property, 700 B.C.-A.D. 2000: An Idea in the Balance," Daedalus (Spring 2002), pp. 6-45. (Chinese translation, in preparation)
"The Cultural Contradictions of Feminism in the French Revolution," in Colin Jones and Dror Wahrman, eds., The Age of Cultural Revolutions (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), pp. 190-202.
"The Law of the Terror," Modern Language Notes, no. 114, special "French Issue" (October,1999), pp.702-718.
- Revised, expanded and re-published as, "La logique culturelle de la loi révolutionnaire," Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 57e anné (juillet-août 2002), pp. 915-933.
"Disasters: An Afterword,” in Alessa Johns, ed., Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment (New York: Routledge, 1999).
"Communication et révolution politique: l’exemple de la France," Actes du Colloque: Les Trois Révolutions de l’Imprimerie, special issue of the Revue française d’histoire du livre, nos. 106-109 (Geneva: Droz, 2001), pp. 209-218.
"Eros versus Philosophy: the Politics of Genre in the French Revolution," Actes du Colloque: Le Livre Français (Paris: forthcoming).
"Les Carrières des historiennes aux Etats-Unis depuis la deuxième guerre mondiale," Actes du Colloques: Une Histoire Sans Femmes, Est-Il Possible? (Rouen: Presses Universitaires, 1999).
"La fin de l’ancien régime typographique," in L’Affiche en Révolution (Vizille: Musée de la Révolution française, 1998): 65-72.
"French Women in Print, 1750-1800: An Essay in Historical Bibliography," in The Darnton Debate:Books and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century, volume 358, 1998): 65-82.
"Humanities and the Library in the Digital Age," in What’s Happened to the Humanities? Alvin Kernan, ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997): 107-121.
"Books in Time," in The Future of the Book, Geoffrey Nunberg ed. (Berkeley: UC Press, 1996).
"La Preuve par la lettre: pratiques juridiques au tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris (1793-1794)," Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales , no. 3, 1996: 629-642;
- German translation: “Das französische Revolutionstribunal –Gerichtsverfahren und die kulturelle Konstrucktion des modernen politischen Subjekts,” in Bilder der Nation, Ulrich Bielefeld und Gisela Engel (Hg.), eds. (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 1998), pp. 331-350.
"Introduction," National Cultures Before Nationalism (Special issue of Representations, no. 47 (summer 1994), with Thomas Laqueur, pgs. 1-12.
"Kant, Foucault and Three Women," in Foucault and the Writing of History, Jan Goldstein, ed. (London: Basil Blackwell, 1993): 81-98.
"Silences and the History of Representations of War: A Comment," The Journal of Military History vol. 57, no. 5 (October, 1993): 139-145.
"Introduction," Future Libraries, R. Howard Bloch and Carla Hesse eds (University of California Press, 1995), with R. Howard Bloch): 1-12.
"Introduction," Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe, Barbara Diefendorf and Carla Hesse eds. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), with Barbara Diefendorf.
"Revolutionary Histories: The Literary Politics of Louise de Kéralio, 1758-1822," in Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. Edited by Barbara Diefendorf and Carla Hesse (Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 1993).
"Enlightenment Epistemology and the Laws of Authorship in Revolutionary France, 1777-1793," Representations 30: Special issue on Law and the Order of Culture (spring, 1990), pp. 109-137.
- Winner of the Koren Prize for the best article in modern French history of 1990, awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies.
- Reprinted in: Law and the Order of Culture, edited by Robert Post (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
"Reading Signatures: Female Authorship and Revolutionary Law in France, 1750- 1850," Eighteenth Century Studies (Special bicentennial issue edited by Lynn Hunt), 22: 3 (Spring 1989), pp. 469-487.
"Economic Upheavals in Paris Publishing," a chapter in Revolution in Print: the Press in France, 1775-1800, Robert Darnton and Daniel Roche, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), pp. 69-97.
"Le Sort des imprimeurs et libraires parisiennes après la chute de la chambre syndicale en 1791," Mélanges de la Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, 9: Livre et Révolution, Daniel Roche et Roger Chartier, eds. (Paris: Amateurs du Livre, 1989), 21-32.
"The Dilemmas of Publishing under the French Republic, 1793-1800," Publishing and Readership in Revolutionary France and America(New York: Greenwood, 1993).
Reviews, etc.
"Olympe de Gouges," Encyclopedia of Modern Europe, John Merriman ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“Literary and Intellectual Property,” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“Révolution et Empire,” Dictionnaire encyclopédique du livre et l’édition (Paris: Elecre: forthcoming).
"Louise Félicité Guynement de Kéralio," biographical entry in The Feminist Companion to French Literature, Samia Spencer, et al, eds. (New York: Greenwood, forthcoming).
Review of Robert L. Dawson, The French Book Trade and the 'permission simple' of 1777: copyright and the public domain; with an edition of the permit registers. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution, 1992. Pp. xvi+665; bibliography; illustration; indices. (Forthcoming: Bibliographic Studies).
Review of Inscrire et éffacer. Culture écrite et littérature (XIe-XVIIIe sičcle) (Hautes Etudes. Paris: Editions du Seuil; Paris: Editions du Gallimard, 2005). Pp. 211. Journal of Modern History (forthcoming).
Review article: “Revolutionary Historiography after the Cold War: Arno Mayer’s “Furies” in the French Context,” Journal of Modern History73 (December 2001), pp. 897-907.
Review of Jean-Pierre Gross, Fair Shares for All: Jacobin Egalitarianism in Practice (1997), xv+255 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge), and Patrice Higonnet, Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution (1998), 397 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA), Social History, vol 26: no. 2 (May: 2001), pp. 222-225.
Review of Hans Lusebrinck and Rolf Reichardt, The Bastille. Chapel Hill NC: Duke University Press, 1997, American Historical Review(Dec. 1998).
Review of Gary Kelly, Women, Writing and Revolution, 1790-1827. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1993). Pp. ix+328. Journal of Modern History, 1996.
Report on the Status and Hiring of Women and Minority Historians in Academia, 4th Ed. (Washington DC: American Historical Association, 1995): 1-12.
Review of Dorinda Outram, The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class, and Political Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Journal of Modern History, Vol. 63, no 4, December 1991:782-783.
Review of Robert Badinter, ed., Une autre justice 1789-1799. Contributions à l'histoire de la justice sous la Révolution française. Paris: Fayard, 1989. Histoire Sociale-Social History, Vol. XXIV (no 48), November 1991:371-373.
Co-author with Jeanne Bornstien, "An Exhibition as Catalyst: Revolution in Print: France,1789," Humanities (10:4 July-August, 1989), pp. 11-13.
Review of Mona Ozouf, Festivals of the French Revolution. Trans., Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. Eighteenth Century Studies, 22: 2 (Winter,1988-89).