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

Contributor(s): Desan, Suzanne, 1957- | Hunt, Lynn, 1945- | Nelson, William Max, 1976- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013Description: vi, 236 p. : illISBN: 9780801467479 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Globalization -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Congresses | France -- Foreign relations -- 1789-1815 -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 944.04 LOC classification: DC157 | .F74 2013Online resources: Click to View
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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"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.

First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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