The French Revolution in global perspectiveedited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)

"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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The global underground : smuggling, rebellion, and the origins of the French Revolution / The global financial origins of 1789 / The fall from Eden : the free-trade origins of the French Revolution / 1685 and the French Revolution / Colonizing France : revolutionary regeneration and the first French Empire / Foreigners, cosmopolitanism, and French revolutionary universalism / Feminism and abolitionism : transatlantic trajectories / Egypt in the French Revolution / Abolition and reenslavement in the Caribbean : the revolution in French Guiana / The French Revolution and American empire / Any revolution is a war of independence / Michael Kwass -- Lynn Hunt -- Charles Walton -- Andrew Jainchill -- William Max Nelson -- Suzanne Desan -- Denise Z. Davidson -- Ian Coller -- Miranda Spieler -- Rafe Blaufarb -- Pierre Serna.



9780801467479


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


Electronic Books.

DC157 / .F746 2013