The French Revolution in global perspective - Desan, Suzanne, 1957-; Hunt, Lynn, 1945-; Nelson, William Max, 1976-; ebrary, Inc. (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013)
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.
"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.
First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Globalization -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Congresses; France -- Foreign relations -- 1789-1815 -- Congresses; Electronic books