The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History (Routledge Companions)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
350 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317413868
Related ISBNs:
9781138333734, 9780415820561, 9781315686011
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Alan Forrest, Matthias Middell
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Alan Forrest
Edited by:
Matthias Middell

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