Reinterpreting The French Revolution A Global Historical Perspective

Author : Bailey Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521811477
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinterpreting the French Revolution written by Bailey Stone and published by . This book was released on 2002-11-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a synthesis of the most recent scholarly literature on the diplomatic, political, social, economic, and cultural history of eighteenth-century and revolutionary France. On the basis of that synthesis, and current theoretical writing on major modern revolutions, the book argues that the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the dramatic developments of the subsequent ten years, were attributable to the interacting pressures of international and domestic politics on those national leaders attempting to govern France and to modernize its institutions. The book furthermore contends that the Revolution of 1789–1799, reconceptualized in this fashion, needs to be placed in the larger contexts of 'early modern' and 'modern' French history and modern 'progressive' sociopolitical revolutions. In staking out these positions, the book offers a unique interpretation of the French Revolution, one that dissents from both the Marxian socioeconomic orthodoxy of earlier times and more recent 'political-cultural' analyses.

Author : Bailey Stone (1946)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Perspective written by Bailey Stone (1946) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone draws on the latest scholarship on diplomatic, political, social, economic, and cultural history of eighteenth-century and revolutionary France to attribute the outbreak of the French Revolution and later developments to pressures of international and domestic politics on those national leaders attempting to govern France and to modernize its institutions.

Author : Suzanne Desan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801478680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Revolution in Global Perspective written by Suzanne Desan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion. The essays examine topics including the role of smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire. The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms-at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing-were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues. Contributors: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University; Ian Coller, La Trobe University; Denise Davidson, Georgia State University; Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Jainchill, Queen's University; Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University; William Max Nelson, University of Toronto; Pierre Serna, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona; Charles Walton, Yale University

Author : Bailey Stone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521009997
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinterpreting the French Revolution written by Bailey Stone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Bailey Stone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521445566
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genesis of the French Revolution written by Bailey Stone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique synthesis of the long- and short-term causes of the French Revolution. Instead of focusing exclusively on developments within France, it places the country, and its revolution, within an international setting from the start. This book argues that the French Revolution stemmed from the pre-revolutionary state's converging failures in international and domestic affairs. The monarchy failed not only to remain in touch with changing social, intellectual, and political realities at home, but also to harness its citizens' ambitions and talents to the purpose of maintaining the country's international power and prestige. This analysis also provides a key to comprehending the course of events in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France--and an insight into why revolutionary movements broke out in the former USSR and its surrounding countries.

Author : Bailey. Stone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genesis of the French Revolution written by Bailey. Stone and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bailey Stone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107623606
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Anatomy of Revolution Revisited written by Bailey Stone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to update a classic of comparative revolutionary analysis, Crane Brinton's 1938 study The Anatomy of Revolution. It invokes the latest research and theoretical writing in history, political science, and political sociology to compare and contrast, in their successive phases, the English Revolution of 1640-60, the French Revolution of 1789-99, and the Russian Revolution of 1917-29. This book intends to do what no other comparative analysis of revolutionary change has yet adequately done. It not only progresses beyond Marxian socioeconomic "class" analysis and early "revisionist" stresses on short-term, accidental factors involved in revolutionary causation and process; it also finds ways to reconcile "state-centered" structuralist accounts of the three major European revolutions with postmodernist explanations of those upheavals that play up the centrality of human agency, revolutionary discourse, mentalities, ideology, and political culture.

Author : Bailey Stone
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ISBN 13 : 9781538163870
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe written by Bailey Stone and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconsidering the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, this book offers an important approach to the theoretical and comparative study of revolutions. Stone proposes an innovative "neostructuralist" synthesis of competing structuralist and postmodernist theory that marks a critical advance in our understanding of revolution.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538163713
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars written by Jeremy Black and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wars between 1792 and 1815 saw the making of the modern world, with Britain and Russia the key powers to emerge triumphant from a long period of bitter conflict. In this innovative book, Jeremy Black focuses on the strategic contexts and strategies involved, explaining their significance both at the time and subsequently. Reinterpreting French Revolutionary and Napoleonic warfare, strategy, and their consequences, he argues that Napoleon’s failure owed much to his limitations as a strategist. Black uses this framework as a foundation to assess the nature of warfare, the character of strategy, and the eventual ascendance of Britain and Russia in this period. Rethinking the character of strategy, this is the first history to look holistically at the strategies of all the leading belligerents from a global perspective. It will be an essential read for military professionals, students, and history buffs alike.

Author : Rebecca L. Spang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674047036
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution written by Rebecca L. Spang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Rebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant, has written a new history of money. It uses one of the most infamous examples of monetary innovation, the assignats—a currency initially defined by French revolutionaries as “circulating land”—to demonstrate that money is as much a social and political mediator as it is an economic instrument. Following the assignats from creation to abandonment, Spang shows them to be subject to the same slippages between policies and practice, intentions and outcomes, as other human inventions. “This is a quite brilliant, assertive book.” —Patrice Higonnet, Times Literary Supplement “Brilliant...What [Spang] proposes is nothing less than a new conceptualization of the revolution...She has provided historians—and not just those of France or the French Revolution—with a new set of lenses with which to view the past.” —Arthur Goldhammer, Bookforum “[Spang] views the French Revolution from rewardingly new angles by analyzing the cultural significance of money in the turbulent years of European war, domestic terror and inflation.” —Tony Barber, Financial Times