Life in Revolutionary France (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Harder, Mette; Heuer, Jennifer Ngaire

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350077317
• Artikelnr.: 59903598

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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