The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political formsat once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizingwere generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.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 long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean.This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion. The essays examine topics including the role of smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire.
Introduction by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max NelsonPart I. Origins1. The Global Underground: Smuggling, Rebellion, and the Origins of the French Revolution by Michael Kwass2. The Global Financial Origins of 1789 by Lynn Hunt3. The Fall from Eden: The Free-Trade Origins of the French Revolution by Charles Walton4. 1685 and the French Revolution by Andrew JainchillPart II. Internal Dynamics5. Colonizing France: Revolutionary Regeneration and the First French Empire by William Max Nelson6 Foreigners, Cosmopolitanism, and French Revolutionary Universalism by Suzanne Desan7. Feminism and Abolitionism: Transatlantic Trajectories by Denise Z. DavidsonPart III. Consequences8. Egypt in the French Revolution by Ian Coller9. Abolition and Reenslavement in the Caribbean: The Revolution in French Guiana by Miranda Spieler10 The French Revolutionary Wars and the Making of American Empire, 1783-1796 by Rafe BlaufarbCoda11. Every Revolution Is a War of Independence by Pierre Serna, translated by Alexis PernsteinerNotes List of Contributors Index
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