[PDF] Companion To The French Revolution eBook

Author : Peter McPhee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1118977521

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A Companion to the French Revolution comprises twenty-nine newly-written essays reassessing the origins, development, and impact of this great turning-point in modern history. Examines the origins, development and impact of the French Revolution Features original contributions from leading historians, including six essays translated from French. Presents a wide-ranging overview of current historical debates on the revolution and future directions in scholarship Gives equally thorough treatment to both causes and outcomes of the French Revolution

Author : Alan Forrest
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1317413873

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The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages with some of the most recent trends in French revolutionary scholarship by considering the Revolution in its global context. Across seventeen chapters an international team of contributors examine the impact of the Revolution not only on its European neighbours but on Latin America, North America and Africa, assess how far events there impacted on the Revolution in France, and suggest something of the Revolution’s enduring legacy in the modern world. The Companion views the French Revolution through a deliberately wide lens. The first section deals with its global repercussions from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and includes a discussion of major insurrections such as those in Haiti and Venezuela. Three chapters then dissect the often complex and entangled relations with other revolutionary movements, in seventeenth-century Britain, the American colonies and Meiji Japan. The focus then switches to international involvement in the events of 1789 and the circulation of ideas, people, goods and capital. In a final section contributors throw light on how the Revolution was and is still remembered across the globe, with chapters on Russia, China and Australasia. An introduction by the editors places the Revolution in its political, historical and historiographical context. The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History is a timely and important contribution to scholarship of the French Revolution.

Author : Pamela Clemit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521516072

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The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.

Author : Colin Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1317870794

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Provides clear and comprehensive factual information across the full range of the Revolutionary period (1787-99).

Author : Peter McPhee
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0522866972

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On 14 July 1789 thousands of Parisians seized the Bastille fortress in Paris. This was the most famous episode of the Revolution of 1789, when huge numbers of French people across the kingdom successfully rebelled against absolute monarchy and the privileges of the nobility. But the subsequent struggle over what social and political system should replace the 'Old Régime' was to divide French people and finally the whole of Europe. The French Revolution is one of the great turning-points in history. It continues to fascinate us, to inspire us, at times to horrify us. Never before had the people of a large and populous country sought to remake their society on the basis of the principles of liberty and equality. The drama, success and tragedy of their project have attracted students to it for more than two centuries. Its importance and fascination for us are undiminished as we try to understand revolutions in our own times. There are three key questions the book investigates. First, why was there a revolution in 1789? Second, why did the revolution continue after 1789, culminating in civil war, foreign invasion and terror? Third, what was the significance of the revolution? Was the French Revolution a major turning-point in French, even world history, or instead just a protracted period of violent upheaval and warfare which wrecked millions of lives?

Author : Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521789523

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A collected volume which addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career.

Author : David Dwan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107495652

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Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher. Yet his responses to specific problems - rebellion in America, the abuse of power in India and Ireland, or revolution in France - incorporated theoretical debates within jurisprudence, economics, religion, moral philosophy and political science. Moreover, the extraordinary rhetorical force of Burke's speeches and writings quickly secured his reputation as a gifted orator and literary stylist. This Companion provides a comprehensive assessment of Burke's thought, exploring all his major writings from his early treatise on aesthetics to his famous polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. It also examines the vexed question of Burke's Irishness and seeks to determine how his cultural origins may have influenced his political views. Finally, it aims both to explain and to challenge interpretations of Burke as a romantic, a utilitarian, a natural law thinker and founding father of modern conservatism.