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9780415358330

The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415358330

  • ISBN10:

    0415358337

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-11-18
  • Publisher: Routledge

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The newest edition in the successfulRewriting Historyseries, this fascinating book studies all aspects of the French Revolution, from its origins, through its development, right up to the consequences of this major historical event. Bringing together key texts at the forefront of new research and interpretation in a new student-friendly format, Gary Kates challenges orthodox assumptions concerning the origins, development and long-term historical repercussions of the Revolution. Completely updated to include discussion of new research and articles, this welcome second edition now includes: * articles on the key Reign of Terror 1793-1794 * a new article on race/colonial issues * a glossary * a chronology. Including a clear and thoroughly updated introduction, this is the perfect reader for students studying the French revolution.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
Contributors viii
Series editor's preface x
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1(14)
Gary Kates
PART I The overthrow of the Marxist paradigm
15(36)
The French Revolution in the history of the contemporary world
17(16)
Albert Soboul
Nobles, bourgeois, and the origins of the French Revolution
33(18)
Colin Lucas
PART II The revisionist orthodoxy
51(34)
The French Revolution revisited
53(15)
Francois Furet
Constitution
68(17)
Keith M. Baker
PART III Responses to Revisionism
85(114)
Bourgeois revolution revivified: 1789 and social change
87(26)
Colin Jones
Luxury, morality, and social change: why there was no middle-class consciousness in prerevolutionary France
113(18)
Sarah Maza
Nobles and Third Estate in the revolutionary dynamic of the National Assembly, 1789--90
131(34)
Timothy Tackett
Violence, emancipation, and democracy: the countryside and the French Revolution
165(34)
John Markoff
PART IV Gender and colonial studies
199(84)
The many bodies of Marie Antoinette: political pornography and the problem of the feminine in the French Revolution
201(18)
Lynn Hunt
War between brothers and sisters: inheritance law and gender politics in revolutionary France
219(35)
Suzanne Desan
The price of Liberty: Victor Hugues and the administration of freedom in Guadeloupe, 1794--1798
254(29)
Laurent Dubois
Index 283

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