The French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new research on how people experienced and survived the revolutionary decade, with a particular focus on individual and collective agency as discovered through the archival record, material culture, and the history of emotions. It combines innovative work with student-friendly essays to offer fresh…mehr
The French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new research on how people experienced and survived the revolutionary decade, with a particular focus on individual and collective agency as discovered through the archival record, material culture, and the history of emotions. It combines innovative work with student-friendly essays to offer fresh perspectives on topics such as: * Political identities and activism * Gender, race, and sexuality * Transatlantic responses to war and revolution * Local and workplace surveillance and transparency * Prison communities and culture * Food, health, and radical medicine * Revolutionary childhoods With an easy-to-navigate, three-part structure, illustrations and primary source excerpts, Life in Revolutionary France is the essential text for approaching the experiences of those who lived through one of the most turbulent times in world history.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mette Harder is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Oneonta, USA. Jennifer Ngaire Heuer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is the author of The Family and The Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830 (2005).
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List of Figures List of Maps List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking the Revolutionary Everyday Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer Part I. Revolutionary Identities and Spaces 1. Republicans and Royalists: Seeking Authentic Rural Voices in the Sources of the French Revolution Jill Maciak Walshaw Source: Trial of Thomas Bordas a weaver from Segonzac department of the Dordogne accused of having publicly stated that he wanted to be governed by a king. 28 pluviôse-12 prairial year IV (February 17 1796-May 31 1796) 2. Mapping Women's Everyday Lives in Revolutionary Marseille Laura Talamante Source: Deliberation of the Dames Citoyennes from the Saint-Martin District no. 7 7 July 1790 3. Emigration Landlords and Tenants in Revolutionary Paris Hannah Callaway Source: Overview of Rentals in the Boulainvilliers Market on 24 Fructidor VI (September 10 1798) 4. Home Fronts and Battlefields: The Army Warfare and the Revolutionary Experience Christopher Tozzi Source (a): "It should come as no surprise if I want to make a Jew into a soldier." Speech by the Abbé Henri Grégoire at the National Assembly 23 December 1789 Source (b): From the Petition of the Jews Established in France addressed to the National Assembly 28 January 1790 5. Race Freedom and Everyday Life: French Caribbean Prisoners of War in Britain Abigail Coppins and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer Source: Undated Report on the State of the Prisons and Hospitals of Portchester and Forton (likely from the end of 1796) TNA (The National Archives) ADM 105/44 Part II. The Right To? - Revolutionary Justice at Work 6. Crime Law and Justice Claire Cage Source: Penal Code of 25 September 1791 7. Surveillance at Work: A Theft on the Rue du Bac Ralph Kingston Source: Defense Statement by Citizen Bonnet former employee of the [French Ministry of] External Relations. Written after his termination for theft on 7 Fructidor VIII (August 25 1800) 8. Sex as Work: Public Women in Revolutionary Paris Clyde Plumauzille Source: Letters by a Woman arrested for Prostitution under the "Terror" 9. Doctors Radicalism and the Right to Health: Three Visions from the French Revolution Sean M. Quinlan Source: The French Doctor and Legislator François Lanthenas on Freedom Health and Hygiene: De l'influence de la liberté sur la santé (1792) Part III. Revolutionary Experience Practices Sensations 10. Tasting Liberty: Food and Revolution E. C. Spary Source: Anon. "L'Hydre aristocratique " Paris 1789 11. Spectacles of French Revolutionary Violence in the Atlantic World Ashli White Source: Massachusetts Mercury (Boston) December 25 1795 page 3: This Evening - Advert for Bowen's Museum 12. Practice and Belief: Religion in the Revolution Jonathan Smyth Source: Extract from Robespierre's Speech on Freedom of Worship made at the Jacobin Club Paris on November 21 1793 (1 Frimaire Year 2 of the Revolution) 13. Facing the Unknown: The Private Lives of Miniatures in the French Revolutionary Prison Sophie Matthiesson Source: Hubert Robert (1733-1808) Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745-1794) as he prepares to be transferred from Sainte-Pélagie to Saint-Lazare 1794 14. Revolutionary Parents and Children: Everyday Lives in Times of Stress Siân Reynolds Source: The Families of Revolutionaries Recommended Readings Index
List of Figures List of Maps List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking the Revolutionary Everyday Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer Part I. Revolutionary Identities and Spaces 1. Republicans and Royalists: Seeking Authentic Rural Voices in the Sources of the French Revolution Jill Maciak Walshaw Source: Trial of Thomas Bordas a weaver from Segonzac department of the Dordogne accused of having publicly stated that he wanted to be governed by a king. 28 pluviôse-12 prairial year IV (February 17 1796-May 31 1796) 2. Mapping Women's Everyday Lives in Revolutionary Marseille Laura Talamante Source: Deliberation of the Dames Citoyennes from the Saint-Martin District no. 7 7 July 1790 3. Emigration Landlords and Tenants in Revolutionary Paris Hannah Callaway Source: Overview of Rentals in the Boulainvilliers Market on 24 Fructidor VI (September 10 1798) 4. Home Fronts and Battlefields: The Army Warfare and the Revolutionary Experience Christopher Tozzi Source (a): "It should come as no surprise if I want to make a Jew into a soldier." Speech by the Abbé Henri Grégoire at the National Assembly 23 December 1789 Source (b): From the Petition of the Jews Established in France addressed to the National Assembly 28 January 1790 5. Race Freedom and Everyday Life: French Caribbean Prisoners of War in Britain Abigail Coppins and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer Source: Undated Report on the State of the Prisons and Hospitals of Portchester and Forton (likely from the end of 1796) TNA (The National Archives) ADM 105/44 Part II. The Right To? - Revolutionary Justice at Work 6. Crime Law and Justice Claire Cage Source: Penal Code of 25 September 1791 7. Surveillance at Work: A Theft on the Rue du Bac Ralph Kingston Source: Defense Statement by Citizen Bonnet former employee of the [French Ministry of] External Relations. Written after his termination for theft on 7 Fructidor VIII (August 25 1800) 8. Sex as Work: Public Women in Revolutionary Paris Clyde Plumauzille Source: Letters by a Woman arrested for Prostitution under the "Terror" 9. Doctors Radicalism and the Right to Health: Three Visions from the French Revolution Sean M. Quinlan Source: The French Doctor and Legislator François Lanthenas on Freedom Health and Hygiene: De l'influence de la liberté sur la santé (1792) Part III. Revolutionary Experience Practices Sensations 10. Tasting Liberty: Food and Revolution E. C. Spary Source: Anon. "L'Hydre aristocratique " Paris 1789 11. Spectacles of French Revolutionary Violence in the Atlantic World Ashli White Source: Massachusetts Mercury (Boston) December 25 1795 page 3: This Evening - Advert for Bowen's Museum 12. Practice and Belief: Religion in the Revolution Jonathan Smyth Source: Extract from Robespierre's Speech on Freedom of Worship made at the Jacobin Club Paris on November 21 1793 (1 Frimaire Year 2 of the Revolution) 13. Facing the Unknown: The Private Lives of Miniatures in the French Revolutionary Prison Sophie Matthiesson Source: Hubert Robert (1733-1808) Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745-1794) as he prepares to be transferred from Sainte-Pélagie to Saint-Lazare 1794 14. Revolutionary Parents and Children: Everyday Lives in Times of Stress Siân Reynolds Source: The Families of Revolutionaries Recommended Readings Index
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