UID:
edocfu_9959235871702883
Format:
1 online resource (358 p.)
ISBN:
0-8047-7719-5
Content:
From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond ""revisionist"" historians of the 1970's, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial policy. In this book, seven established authorities explore some of these critical intersections, and together they make clear the role that unresolved tensions in these realms played in the essentially...
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Financial Origins of the French Revolution; 2. The Social Origins of the French Revolution Revisited; 3. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, 1560-1791; 4. From Fiscal Crisis to Revolution: The Court and French Foreign Policy, 1787-1789; 5. Enlightenment Idioms, Old Regime Discourses, and Revolutionary Improvisation; 6. Gender in Pre-Revolutionary Political Culture; 7. Saint-Domingue, Slavery, and the Origins of the French Revolution; Conclusion: From Old Regime to French Revolution; Notes; Index; Contributors
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-7280-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1515/9780804777193
