Title: The French Revolution in social and political perspective /
Authors: Jones, Peter, 1949-
Publisher: Arnold,
Year: 1996
Subjects: France Politics and government; France Cultural policy History; France History Social aspects.
Contents: 1. What was revolutionary about the French Revolution? / Robert Darnton -- 2. The French Revolution is over / Francois Furet -- 3. Georges Lefebvre and the peasant revolution: fifty years on / Peter Jones -- 4. Bourgeois revolution revivified: 1789 and social change / Colin Jones -- 5. Politics, culture and the origins of the French Revolution / Sarah Maza -- 6. Rethinking the debate / Gwynne Lewis -- 7. Public opinion as political invention / Keith Baker -- 8. Do books make revolutions? / Roger Chartier -- 9. Ephemera: civic education through images / James Leith -- 10. The Enlightenment redefined / Margaret Jacob -- 11. The court nobility and the French Revolution: the example of the Society of Thirty / Daniel Wick -- 12. Feminism in the French Revolution / Jane Abray -- 13. Feminism, women and the French Revolution / Barrie Rose -- 14. The many bodies of Marie-Antoinette: political pornography and the problem of the feminine in the French Revolution / Lynn Hunt -- 15. Counter-revolutionary women / Olwen Hufton -- 16. Nobles and the Third Estate in the revolutionary dynamic of the National Assembly, 1789-1790 / Timothy Tackett -- 17. The origins of the civil war in the Vendee / Claude Petitfrere -- 18. Federalism / Alan Forrest -- 19. Saint-Just: the military commissar / Norman Hampson -- 20. The 9 Thermidor: motives and effects / Martyn Lyons -- 21. The crowd and politics / Colin Lucas -- 22. Terror / Francois Furet -- 23. The rise and fall of a provincial terrorist / Richard Cobb -- 24. The end of Year Two / Bronislaw Baczko.