Revolutionary ideas : an intellectual history of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre / Jonathan Israel.

Author: Israel, Jonathan, 1946- author.

ImprintOxford ; Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Descriptionviii, 870 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Note:Introduction -- Revolution of the Press (1788-90) -- From Estates-General to National Assembly (April-June 1789) -- The Rights of Man : Summer and Autumn 1789 -- Democratizing the Revolution -- Deadlock (November 1790-July 1791) -- War with the Church (1788-92) -- The Feuillant Revolution ( July 1791-April 1792) -- The "General Revolution" Begins (1791-92) -- The Revolutionary Summer of 1792 -- Republicans Divided (September 1792-March 1793) -- The "General Revolution" from Valmy to the Fall of Mainz (1792-93) -- The World's First Democratic Constitution (1793) -- Education : Securing the Revolution -- Black Emancipation -- Robespierre's Putsch ( June 1793) -- The Summer of 1793 : Overturning the Revolution's Core Values -- De-Christianization (1793-94) -- "The Terror" (September 1793-March 1794) -- The Terror's Last Months (March-July 1794) -- Thermidor -- Post-Thermidor (1795-97) -- The "General Revolution" (1795-1800) : Holland, Italy, and the Levant -- The Failed Revolution (1797-99) -- Conclusion : The Revolution as the Outcome of the Radical Enlightenment.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 803-831) and index.

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