The French Revolution in global perspective / edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Description
vi, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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Notes
"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.
Bibliographic references
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.
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
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