The French Revolution in global perspective / edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson.

Contributor Desan, Suzanne, 1957-

Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

Descriptionvi, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:"Most of the essays in this volume were first presented as conference papers at the 2011 meeting of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era in Tallahassee, Florida"--Acknowledgements.

Note:The global underground : smuggling, rebellion, and the origins of the French Revolution / Michael Kwass -- The global financial origins of 1789 / Lynn Hunt -- The fall from Eden : the free-trade origins of the French Revolution / Charles Walton -- 1685 and the French Revolution / Andrew Jainchill -- Colonizing France : revolutionary regeneration and the first French Empire / William Max Nelson -- Foreigners, cosmopolitanism, and French revolutionary universalism / Suzanne Desan -- Feminism and abolitionism : transatlantic trajectories / Denise Z. Davidson -- Egypt in the French Revolution / Ian Coller -- Abolition and reenslavement in the Caribbean : the revolution in French Guiana / Miranda Spieler -- The French Revolution and American empire / Rafe Blaufarb -- Any revolution is a war of independence / Pierre Serna.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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