French Revolution in Global Perspective

Suzanne Desan is Vilas-Shinners Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France, also from Cornell, and The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. Lynn Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several books, including Measuring Time, Making History and Inventing Human Rights. William Max Nelson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto and the author of a book manuscript and essays that focus on eighteenth-century intellectual history in France and the Atlantic world.

The eleven contributions are clustered under the traditional headings of the origins, internal dynamics and consequences of the Revolution. Their analyses are far from traditional, however, consistently teasing out transnational connections and contrasts, and it is unusual to have a collection of such uniformly high quality which has such tightly linked concerns. The chapters are all closely documented, and the notes will be a treasure-trove for researchers as much as the text will engage students and teachers alike.- Peter McPhee (H-France Review)

• Introductionby Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max NelsonPart I. Origins1. The Global Underground: Smuggling, Rebellion, and the Origins of the French Revolutionby Michael Kwass2. The Global Financial Origins of 1789by Lynn Hunt3. The Fall from Eden: The Free-Trade Origins of the French Revolutionby Charles Walton4. 1685 and the French Revolutionby Andrew JainchillPart II. "Internal" Dynamics5. Colonizing France: Revolutionary Regeneration and the First French Empireby William Max Nelson6 Foreigners, Cosmopolitanism, and French Revolutionary Universalismby Suzanne Desan7. Feminism and Abolitionism: Transatlantic Trajectoriesby Denise Z. DavidsonPart III. Consequences8. Egypt in the French Revolutionby Ian Coller9. Abolition and Reenslavement in the Caribbean: The Revolution in French Guianaby Miranda Spieler10 The French Revolutionary Wars and the Making of American Empire, 1783–1796by Rafe BlaufarbCoda11. Every Revolution Is a War of Independenceby Pierre Serna, translated by Alexis PernsteinerNotesList of ContributorsIndex