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.
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 forms at once
democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing were
generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and
dialogues.
Contributors: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University; Ian
Coller, La Trobe University; Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State
University; Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin Madison; Lynn
Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Jainchill,
Queen's University; Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University;
William Max Nelson, University of Toronto; Pierre Serna, Universite
Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne; Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona;
Charles Walton, Yale University"
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