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...

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