French Revolution in Global Perspective

Name: French Revolution in Global Perspective
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ISBN: 9780801478680

ISBN-10: 0801478685

ISBN-13: 9780801478680

Edition: 2013

Authors: Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson

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Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion. The essays examine topics including the role of…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Origins



The Global Underground: Smuggling, Rebellion, and the Origins of the French Revolution




The Global Financial Origins of 1789




The Fall from Eden: The Free-Trade Origins of the French Revolution




1685 and the French Revolution




"Internal" Dynamics



Colonizing France: Revolutionary Regeneration and the First French Empire




Foreigners, Cosmopolitanism, and French Revolutionary Universalism




Feminism and Abolitionism: Transatlantic Trajectories




Consequences



Egypt in the French Revolution




Abolition and Reenslavement in the Caribbean: The Revolution in French Guiana




The French Revolutionary Wars and the Making of American Empire, 1783-1796




Coda



Every Revolution Is a War of Independence



Notes


List of Contributors


Index