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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823140103321

Autore

Kaiser Thomas

Titolo

From Deficit to Deluge [[electronic resource] ] : The Origins of the French Revolution

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8047-7719-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Classificazione

NO 3050

Altri autori (Persone)

Van KleyDale

Disciplina

944.04

Soggetti

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

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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...