The French Revolution in global perspective [electronic resource] / edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013. - vi, 236 p. : ill.

"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.

9780801467479 (electronic bk.)




Globalization--Political aspects--History--France--18th century--Congresses.


France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Congresses.
France--Foreign relations--1789-1815--Congresses.


Electronic books.

DC157 / .F74 2013

944.04