French Revolution in Global Perspective

Suzanne Desan and Lynn Hunt and William Max Nelson (Editors)

Description

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.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.Contributors: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University; Ian Coller, La Trobe University; Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University; Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Jainchill, Queen's University; Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University; William Max Nelson, University of Toronto; Pierre Serna, Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne; Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona; Charles Walton, Yale University

Sujets

• Histoire
• Revolutions
• Globalization
• Revolution
• History of Europe
• French Revolution
• France

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780801467479
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Editedby SUZANNE DESAN, LYNN UNT, andWLLAM MAX NELSON

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 ntroducton1  Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, andWilliam Max Nelson

PartI.Origins

Goba Underground: Smuggng, Rebeon, and te Orgns1 he o te renc Revouton15  Micael Kwass Goba nanca Orgns o 1789 322 he Hunt Lynn a rom Eden: he ree-Trade Orgns o te renc3 he Revouton44  Carles Walton 4 1685 and te renc Revouton57  Andrew Jaincill

PartII.“Internal”Dynamics

rance: Revoutonary Regeneraton and te rst5 Coonzng renc Empre73  William Max Nelson

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Contents

Cosmopotansm, and renc Revoutonary6 oregners, Unversasm86 Desan Suzanne 7 emnsm and Abotonsm: Transatantc Trajectores101  Denise Z. Davidson

PartIII.Consequences

 8 Egypt n te renc Revouton115  Ian Coller 9 Aboton and Reensavement n te Carbbean: he Revouton n renc Guana132 Spieler Miranda renc Revoutonary Wars and te Makng o Amercan10 he Empre, 1783–1796148 Blaufarb Rafe

Part IV. Coda

Revouton s a War o ndependence11 Every 165  Pierre Serna, translated by Alexis Pernsteiner

 Notes 183  Lst o Contrbutors225 ndex229

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