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Title The French Revolution in global perspective [electronic resource] / edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson.

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Description vi, 236 p. : ill.
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.
First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2013.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Globalization -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Congresses.
France -- Foreign relations -- 1789-1815 -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Desan, Suzanne, 1957-
Hunt, Lynn, 1945-
Nelson, William Max, 1976-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780801450969 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801478680 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801467479 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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