Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution

by Censer, Jack R.; Hunt, Lynn Avery

• ISBN13: 9780271020884
• ISBN10: 0271020881
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

The book, written by Jack Censer and Lynn Hunt, preeminent authorities on the French Revolution, includes selected images and documents from the accompanying CD-ROM, prepared by the authors with the support of the Center for History and new Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project at City University of New York. Features of the CD-ROM include primary documents (carefully chosen, translated, and placed in their proper historical contexts by a team of historians), songs, maps, and more than 300 images (caricatures, portraits, sculptures, and photographs of artifacts of material culture) -- many previously available only to specialists in the field. These hard-to-find images, gathered from repositories in France and the United States, constitute an unparalleled and powerful visual record of the Revolution. Given the centrality of visual artifacts (imagery, symbolism, and print culture) to the history of the Revolution, and the inability of print reproduction to present such images with clarity and detail, the companion CD-ROM provid

Table of Contents

List of Images	vii
List of Documents	ix
Preface	xi
France on the Eve of 1789: A Society in Crisis?	1	(48)
Society and Social Tensions	3	(6)
The Monarchy and Its Critics	9	(5)
New Ideas	14	(7)
Documents on equality and the Revolution	21	(7)
Documents on the Damiens Affair	28	(7)
Documents on the universality of rights	35	(14)
From Constitutional to Democratic Revolution, 1789-January 1793	49	(36)
The Revolution Begins	50	(4)
The Constitutional Revolution	54	(8)
The Fall of the Monarchy	62	(4)
Documents on political clubs	66	(9)
Documents on women and the Revolution	75	(7)
Study in Images: ``Down with the King!''	82	(3)
Terror, War, and Resistance	85	(30)
The Committee of Public Safety	86	(5)
The Republic of Virtue	91	(4)
Resisting the Revolution	95	(5)
The Fall of Robespierre and the End of the Terror, 1794-1799	100	(5)
Documents on the Terror	105	(10)
The Revolution in the Colonies	115	(24)
The Colonies Under the Old Regime	117	(4)
Revolution in the French Colonies	121	(8)
Documents on slavery and the Revolution	129	(10)
The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1799-1815	139	(32)
Napoleon's Rise to Power	140	(4)
From Consulate to Empire	144	(6)
The Road to Waterloo and Final Defeat	150	(9)
Documents on Napoleon	159	(12)
Legacies and Interpretations	171	(26)
Political Legacies	172	(6)
Scholarly Interpretations	178	(8)
Documents on the Anglo-American response, from 1789 to the Terror	186	(11)
Suggestions for Further Reading	197	(4)
Index	201