The French Revolution in Global Perspective (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Desan, Suzanne; Nelson, William Max; Hunt, Lynn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms-at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing-were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.

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 smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780801467462
• Artikelnr.: 48786322

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Desan is Vilas-Shinners Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France, also from Cornell, and The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. Lynn Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several books, including Measuring Time, Making History and Inventing Human Rights. William Max Nelson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto and the author of a book manuscript and essays that focus on eighteenth-century intellectual history in France and the Atlantic world.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max NelsonPart I. Origins1. The
Global Underground: Smuggling, Rebellion, and the Origins of the French
Revolution
by Michael Kwass2. The Global Financial Origins of 1789
by Lynn Hunt3. The Fall from Eden: The Free-Trade Origins of the French
Revolution
by Charles Walton4. 1685 and the French Revolution
by Andrew JainchillPart II. "Internal" Dynamics5. Colonizing France:
Revolutionary Regeneration and the First French Empire
by William Max Nelson6 Foreigners, Cosmopolitanism, and French
Revolutionary Universalism
by Suzanne Desan7. Feminism and Abolitionism: Transatlantic Trajectories
by Denise Z. DavidsonPart III. Consequences8. Egypt in the French
Revolution
by Ian Coller9. Abolition and Reenslavement in the Caribbean: The
Revolution in French Guiana
by Miranda Spieler10 The French Revolutionary Wars and the Making of
American Empire, 1783-1796
by Rafe BlaufarbCoda11. Every Revolution Is a War of Independence
by Pierre Serna, translated by Alexis PernsteinerNotes
List of Contributors
Index