From Deficit to Deluge : The Origins of the French Revolution

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaiser, Thomas.

Contributor:

Van Kley, Dale K., 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Historiography.

Local Subjects:

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond ""revisionist"" historians of the 1970's, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial policy. In this book, seven established authorities explore some of these critical intersections, and together they make clear the role that unresolved tensions in these realms played in the essentially...

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Financial Origins of the French Revolution; 2. The Social Origins of the French Revolution Revisited; 3. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, 1560-1791; 4. From Fiscal Crisis to Revolution: The Court and French Foreign Policy, 1787-1789; 5. Enlightenment Idioms, Old Regime Discourses, and Revolutionary Improvisation; 6. Gender in Pre-Revolutionary Political Culture; 7. Saint-Domingue, Slavery, and the Origins of the French Revolution; Conclusion: From Old Regime to French Revolution; Notes; Index; Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804777193

0804777195

OCLC:

713026492