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

• Autore: Kaiser Thomas
• Pubblicazione: Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Disciplina: 944.04
• Soggetto topico: France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Historiography
• Classificazione: NO 3050
• Altri autori: Van KleyDale
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: From Deficit to Deluge
• ISBN: 0-8047-7719-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823140103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II