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The French Revolution in global perspective / edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson.
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Book
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English
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2013.
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vi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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DC157 .F74 2013
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Globalization
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Political aspects
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France
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History
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18th century
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France
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History
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Revolution, 1789-1799
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France
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Foreign relations
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1789-1815
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Desan, Suzanne, 1957-
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Hunt, Lynn, 1945-
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Nelson, William Max, 1976-
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Cornell paperbacks
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Summary note
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 -- Provided by Publisher.
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"Most of the essays in this volume were first presented as conference papers at the 2011 meeting of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era in Tallahassee, Florida"--Acknowledgements.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The global underground : smuggling, rebellion, and the origins of the French Revolution / Michael Kwass
The global financial origins of 1789 / Lynn Hunt
The fall from Eden : the free-trade origins of the French Revolution / Charles Walton
1685 and the French Revolution / Andrew Jainchill
Colonizing France : revolutionary regeneration and the first French Empire / William Max Nelson
Foreigners, cosmopolitanism, and French revolutionary universalism / Suzanne Desan
Feminism and abolitionism : transatlantic trajectories / Denise Z. Davidson
Egypt in the French Revolution / Ian Coller
Abolition and reenslavement in the Caribbean : the revolution in French Guiana / Miranda Spieler
The French Revolution and American empire / Rafe Blaufarb
Any revolution is a war of independence / Pierre Serna.
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ISBN
9780801450969 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0801450969 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780801478680 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0801478685 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2012033632
OCLC
808009907
Other standard number
40022115101
99953396918
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