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• Revolutionaries—France—History—18th century [Browse]
• France—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]
• France—History—Revolution, 1789-1799—Historiography [Browse]
• France—History—Revolution, 1789-1799—Causes [Browse]

Summary note

Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers-that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture-almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution's intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution.In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas-not their fulfillment.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 803-831) and index.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

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English

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Revolution of the Press (1788-90)
• Chapter 3. From Estates-General to National Assembly (April-June 1789)
• Chapter 4. The Rights of Man: Summer and Autumn 1789
• Chapter 5. Democratizing the Revolution
• Chapter 6. Deadlock (November 1790-July 1791)
• Chapter 7. War with the Church (1788-92)
• Chapter 8. The Feuillant Revolution ( July 1791-April 1792)
• Chapter 9. The "General Revolution" Begins (1791-92)
• Chapter 10. The Revolutionary Summer of 1792
• Chapter 11. Republicans Divided (September 1792-March 1793)
• Chapter 12. The "General Revolution" from Valmy to the Fall of Mainz (1792-93)
• Chapter 13. The World's First Democratic Constitution (1793)
• Chapter 14. Education: Securing the Revolution
• Chapter 15. Black Emancipation
• Chapter 16. Robespierre's Putsch ( June 1793)
• Chapter 17. The Summer of 1793: Overturning the Revolution's Core Values
• Chapter 18. De-Christianization (1793-94)
• Chapter 19. "The Terror" (September 1793-March 1794)
• Chapter 20. The Terror's Last Months (March-July 1794)
• Chapter 21. Thermidor
• Chapter 22. Post-Thermidor (1795-97)
• Chapter 23. The "General Revolution" (1795-1800): Holland, Italy, and the Levant
• Chapter 24. The Failed Revolution (1797-99)
• Chapter 25. Conclusion: The Revolution as the Outcome of the Radical Enlightenment
• Cast of Main Participants
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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ISBN

• 9781400849994
• 1400849993

OCLC

• 1132223166
• 984649207

Doi

10.1515/9781400849994

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