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The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies book cover

2nd Edition

The French Revolution Recent Debates and New Controversies

Edited By Gary Kates Copyright 2005
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

This fascinating book studies all aspects of the French Revolution, from its origins, through its development, right up to the consequences of this major historical event. Bringing together key texts at the forefront of new research and interpretation, Gary Kates challenges orthodox assumptions concerning the origins, development and long-term historical repercussions of the Revolution.... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: The Overthrow of the Marxist Paradigm  1. The French Revolution in the History of the Contemporary World Albert Soboul  2. Nobles, Bourgeois, and the Origins of the French Revolution Colin Lucas  Part 2: The Revisionist Orthodoxy  3. The French Revolution Revisited François Furet  4. Constitution Keith M. Baker   Part 3: Responses to Revisionism  5. Bourgeois Revolution Revivified: 1789 and Social Change Colin Jones  6. Luxury, Morality, and Social Change: Why There was No Middle-Class Consciousness in Prerevolutionary France Sarah Maza  7. Nobles and Third Estate in the Revolutionary Dynamic of the National Assembly, 1789–90 Timothy Tackett  8. Violence, Emanciaption, and Democracy: The Countryside and the French Revolution John Markoff  Part 4: Gender and Colonial Studies  9. The Many Bodies of Marie Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in The French Revolution Lynn Hunt  10. "War Between Brothers and Sisters": Inheritance Law and Gender Politics in Revolutionary France Suzanne Desan  11. "The Price of Liberty:" Victor Hugues and the Administration of Freedom in Guadeloupe, 1794–1798 Laurent Dubois

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