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A Short History of the French Revolution,9780136474210

A Short History of the French Revolution

by Jeremy D. Popkin

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9780136474210

ISBN10:

0136474217

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Pub. Date:

9/1/1997

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Prentice Hall

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Table of Contents

Preface

ix

Chapter 1 The Origins of the French Revolution

1

(20)

The Problems of the Monarchy

1

(5)

The Failure of Reform

6

(2)

Social Structure and Social Crisis

8

(3)

The Third Estate

11

(2)

The Lower Classes

13

(2)

The Impact of the Philosophes

15

(3)

The Growth of Public Opinion

18

(2)

Notes

20

(1)

Chapter 2 The Collapse of the Absolute Monarchy, 1787-1789

21

(15)

The Pre-Revolution

21

(2)

The Assembly of Notables

23

(2)

From Failed Reforms to Revolutionary Crisis

25

(1)

The Meeting of the Estates-General

26

(3)

The Parliamentary Revolutionary

29

(2)

The Storming of the Bastille

31

(4)

Notes

35

(1)

Chapter 3 The Revolutionary Rupture, 1789-1790

36

(18)

The Concept of Revolution

36

(1)

The "Abolition of Feudalism" and the Declaration of Rights

37

(6)

The October Days

43

(1)

The Accomplishments of the National Assembly, 1789-1791

44

(3)

The Constitutional Debates

47

(2)

The Expropriation of Church Lands and the Assignats

49

(2)

The Civil Constitution of the Clergy

51

(2)

Notes

53

(1)

Chapter 4 The Defeat of the Liberal Revolution, 1790-1792

54

(19)

The New Political Culture

54

(3)

The King's Flight and the Crisis of 1791

57

(1)

The End of the National Assembly

58

(1)

The Legislative Assembly

59

(3)

The Revolt Against Slavery

62

(1)

The Move Toward War

63

(2)

The Impact of War

65

(1)

The Overthrow of the Monarchy

66

(2)

Emergency Measures and Massacres

68

(3)

The Failure of the Liberal Revolution

71

(1)

Notes

72

(1)

Chapter 5 The Convention and the Republic, 1792-1794

73

(21)

The Trial of the King

74

(3)

Popular Radicalism

77

(1)

The Victory of the Montagnards

78

(3)

Terror Becomes the Order of the Day

81

(1)

The Dictatorship of the Committee of Public Safety

82

(2)

Revolutionary Culture

84

(3)

The Radical Revolution and the Social Order

87

(2)

The Great Terror and Thermidor

89

(2)

The Revolution Victorious

91

(1)

Thermidor

92

(1)

Notes

92

(2)

Chapter 6 The Return to Order, 1794-1799

94

(15)

The "Bourgeois Republic" and the Search for Order

94

(1)

The Thermidorian Reaction

95

(2)

The Defeat of the Sans-Culottes

97

(1)

Counterrevolution and the Constitution of 1795

98

(3)

The Directory

101

(2)

The Directory and Europe

103

(1)

The "Politics of the Balance"

104

(2)

The "Second Directory"

106

(1)

The Fall of the Directory

107

(2)

Chapter 7 The Napoleonic Consulate, 1799-1804

109

(13)

The Consul and the Consulate

110

(2)

Napoleon's Career

112

(1)

The Constitution of the Consulate

113

(1)

Consolidation of Power

114

(2)

The Peace of Amiens and the Concordat

116

(3)

Elements of Opposition

119

(2)

Notes

121

(1)

Chapter 8 The Napoleonic Empire, 1804-1815

122

(16)

The Resumption of War

124

(1)

From Ulm to Tilsit

125

(1)

The Continental System

126

(1)

The Empire at Home

127

(3)

Culture under the Empire

130

(1)

The Social Bases of the Empire

131

(2)

The Decline of the Empire

133

(1)

The Invasion of Russia

134

(1)

The Hundred Days

135

(2)

Notes

137

(1)

Chapter 9 The Revolutionary Heritage

138

(12)

The Post-Revolutionary Settlement

139

(1)

State and Nation

140

(1)

The Broader Impact

141

(1)

The French Revolution as History

142

(1)

The Jacobin Historical Synthesis

143

(2)

The Revisionist Critique

145

(1)

Postrevisionist Studies of the Revolution

146

(3)

Notes

149

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

150

(6)

Bibliographies, Journals, and General Reference Works

150

(1)

Specialized Titles: Select Bibliography

151

(5)

Index

156

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