The French Revolution in Global Perspective / / ed. by Lynn Hunt, Suzanne Desan, William Max Nelson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Blaufarb, Rafe,; Coller, Ian,; Davidson, Denise Z.,; Desan, Suzanne,; Hunt, Lynn,; Jainchill, Andrew,; Kwass, Michael,; Nelson, William Max,; Serna, Pierre,; Spieler, Miranda,; Walton, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Desan, Suzanne,; Hunt, Lynn,; Nelson, William Max,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 3 halftones, 2 tables, 2 charts, 2 maps

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, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona; Charles Walton, Yale University

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Origins -- 1. Th e Global Underground: Smuggling, Rebellion, and the Origins of the French Revolution -- 2. The Global Financial Origins of 1789 -- 3. The Fall from Eden: The Free-Trade Origins of the French Revolution -- 4. 1685 and the French Revolution -- Part II. "Internal" Dynamics -- 5. Colonizing France: Revolutionary Regeneration and the First French Empire -- 6. Foreigners, Cosmopolitanism, and French Revolutionary Universalism -- 7. Feminism and Abolitionism: Transatlantic Trajectories -- Part III. Consequences -- 8. Egypt in the French Revolution -- 9. Abolition and Reenslavement in the Caribbean: Th e Revolution in French Guiana -- 10. The French Revolutionary Wars and the Making of American Empire, 1783-1796 -- Part IV. Coda -- 11. Every Revolution Is a War of Independence -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index