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The work of David Bien, one of America's foremost historians of
eighteenth-century France, transformed our understanding of the
ancien regime and the origins of the French Revolution. The editors
bring together for the first time his most important articles,
other previously unpublished essays and an interview transcript.
Bien's empirically-grounded approach made him a central figure in
the 'revisionist' debates on the origins of the French Revolution.
His re-reading of the Calas affair as an anomaly in a growing trend
of tolerance (rather than a sign of widespread bigotry among an
entire class of magistrates) opened up significant new insights
into the history of religious persecution, long influenced by
Voltaire. Bien's ground-breaking research on the army and the sale
of offices revealed the surprising extent of social mobility at the
time and challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that it was
frustration of the bourgeoisie which contributed to the outbreak of
the Revolution. With a preface by Keith Baker and an introduction
by Michael Christofferson, Interpreting the 'ancien
regime'underlines the seminal importance of David Bien's work for
contemporary debates about the social and political history of
late-eighteenth-century France. It will be an indispensible
resource for historians and historiographers alike.
The dramatic story of the slave ship Neirsee springs vividly to
life in Rafe Blaufarb's graphic mircohistory, Inhuman Traffic. The
story, set in the early nineteenth century, moves from the slave
port of Old Calabar to the Caribbean and to the courts of Britain
and France where the history of the illegal slave trade, slavery in
the Caribbean, and diplomatic history all come into focus as
Blaufarb follows the ship, its crew, and its captives. Students
will be taken in by the vivid drawings and the rich narrative, but
they will also find themselves immersed in an unusual learning
experience. Blaufarb not only presents the history of the ship and
captives, he takes the reader inside the project itself. He
explains how he came upon the story, how he and his editor
envisioned the project, and how he worked with the illustrator Liz
Clarke to craft the 350 "cells" that compose the book. He and
Clarke even take the reader inside archives in Britain and France
which are themselves illustrated and their histories explained.
Like all the best examples of the genre, Inhuman Traffic tells a
compelling story through a complex interplay of image and text - it
will keep students reading, and learning, to the very end.
This book examines the transformation of the French military
profession during the momentous period that saw the death of royal
absolutism, the rise and fall of successive revolutionary regimes,
the consolidation of Napoleonic rule and the restoration of the
Bourbon monarchy after the Empire's final collapse. Crossing
traditional chronological boundaries, it brings together periods in
French history that are usually treated separately and challenges
established views of change and continuity during the Age of
Revolution. Based on a wealth of archival sources, this book is as
much a social history of ideas like equality, talent, and merit as
a military history. -- .
This is a sourcebook on the "revolutionary Atlantic," a term
historians increasingly use to describe the way the many
revolutions from 1776 (USA) to 1826 (end of the wars of
independence in Latin America) can be viewed as part of a connected
whole. It is the first text to examine the American Revolution, the
French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the various Latin
American Revolutions from a synoptic perspective.
In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range
of employments-from printmaking to running whole-sale
businesses-although social and legal structures frequently limited
their capacity to work independently. The contributors to Women and
Work in Eighteenth-Century France reveal how women at all levels of
society negotiated these structures with determination and
ingenuity in order to provide for themselves and their families.
Recent historiography on women and work in eighteenth-century
France has focused on the model of the ""family economy,"" in which
women's work existed as part of the communal effort to keep the
family afloat, usually in support of the patriarch's occupation.
The ten essays in this volume offer case studies that complicate
the conventional model: wives of ship captains managed family
businesses in their husbands' extended absences; high-end
prostitutes managed their own households; female weavers, tailors,
and merchants increasingly appeared on eighteenth-century tax rolls
and guild membership lists; and female members of the nobility
possessed and wielded the same legal power as their male
counterparts. Examining female workers within and outside of the
context of family, Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France
challenges current scholarly assumptions about gender and labor.
This stimulating and important collection of essays broadens our
understanding of the diversity, vitality, and crucial importance of
women's work in the eighteenth-century economy.
The period 1750-1820 saw the death of royal absolutism, the rise
and fall of successive revolutionary regimes, the consolidation of
Napoleonic rule and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy after
the Empire's final collapse. This volume examines the
transformation of the French military profession during this
momentous time. Based on a wealth of archival sources, it is as
much a social history of ideas such as equality, talent and merit
as a military history. It provides an analysis of shifts in the
idea and practice of merit before, during and after 1789, crossing
the chronological boundary of 1789 to bring the histories of the
Old Regime, Revolution, Empire and Restoration together. It also
makes available a comprehensive examination of the changes in
military personnel and institutions that laid the basis for
Napoleon's armies.
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