French Revolution, 1789-1799

Name: French Revolution, 1789-1799
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ISBN: 9780199244140

ISBN-10: 0199244146

ISBN-13: 9780199244140

Edition: 2002

Authors: Peter McPhee

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This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates among historians. The book has two main aims. One aim is to consider the origins and nature of the Revolution of 1789-99. Why was there a Revolution in France in 1789? Why did the Revolution follow its particular course after 1789? When was it 'over'? A second aim is to examine the significance of the Revolutionary period in accelerating the decay of Ancien Regime society. How 'revolutionary' was the Revolution? Was France fundamentally…

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List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction



France in the 1780s



The Crisis of the Old Regime



The Revolution of 1789



The Reconstruction of France, 1789-1791



A Second Revolution, 1792



The Revolution in the Balance, 1793



The Terror: Revolutionary Defence or Paranoia?



Ending the Revolution, 1795-1799



The Significance of the Revolution


Maps



France--physical



Pre-revolutionary France



The departments of revolutionary France



Revolutionary Paris



The 'Vendee militaire'



Number of capital sentences passed, by department


Chronology



The Revolutionary Calendar


A Guide to Further Reading


Index