The French Revolution in global perspective /
Desan, Suzanne,1957-
Hunt, Lynn,1945-
Nelson, William Max,1976-
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press,
c2013.
"Most of the essays in this volume were first presented as conference papers at the 2011 meeting of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era in Tallahassee, Florida"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The global underground : smuggling, rebellion, and the origins of the French Revolution / Michael Kwass -- The global financial origins of 1789 / Lynn Hunt -- The fall from Eden : the free-trade origins of the French Revolution / Charles Walton -- 1685 and the French Revolution / Andrew Jainchill -- Colonizing France : revolutionary regeneration and the first French Empire / William Max Nelson -- Foreigners, cosmopolitanism, and French revolutionary universalism / Suzanne Desan -- Feminism and abolitionism : transatlantic trajectories / Denise Z. Davidson -- Egypt in the French Revolution / Ian Coller -- Abolition and reenslavement in the Caribbean : the revolution in French Guiana / Miranda Spieler -- The French Revolution and American empire / Rafe Blaufarb -- Any revolution is a war of independence / Pierre Serna.
Globalization