The French Revolution in global perspective
by Desan, Suzanne Hunt, Lynn Nelson, William Max
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 ex…
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- Full title :The French Revolution in global perspective / edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson.
Summary
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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- Publication Date:2013.
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- Publisher(s):Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication:Ithaca
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
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.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0801467470, 9780801467479
- oclc:ocn835374589
- LC Classification:DC157
- Dewey Decimal:944.04
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