02976nam 22006013u 450 991096958020332120251116221413.09780804777193080477719510.1515/9780804777193(CKB)2560000000072221(EBL)683250(OCoLC)713026492(SSID)ssj0000469360(PQKBManifestationID)12184888(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469360(PQKBWorkID)10510484(PQKB)11031161(MiAaPQ)EBC683250(DE-B1597)564541(DE-B1597)9780804777193(OCoLC)1198931411(Perlego)745168(EXLCZ)99256000000007222120140310d2010|||| u|| |engur|||||||||||txtccrFrom Deficit to Deluge The Origins of the French RevolutionPalo Alto Stanford University Press20101 online resource (358 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780804772808 0804772800 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; ContributorsFrom 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...France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- CausesFrance -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- HistoriographyFrance -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes.France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Historiography.944.04NO 3050rvkKaiser Thomas892273Van Kley Dale K.1941-219172AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910969580203321From Deficit to Deluge4469221UNINA