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The French Revolution in global perspective / edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson

Published
Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
vi, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Desan, Suzanne, 1957-, Hunt, Lynn, 1945-, and Nelson, William Max, 1976-

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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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ISBN
9780801450969 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801450969 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801478680 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801478685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Note
"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.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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