A Short History of the French Revolution
ISBN: 9780205693573 | 0205693571
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 5/11/2009
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For courses on the French Revolution.Written for today's undergraduates, this up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era offers a concise alternative to the longer texts geared to advanced study in the field. This text introduces students to the major events that comprise the story of the French Revolution; to the different ways in which historians have interpreted these event; to the political, social, and cultural origins of the Revolution; and to recent scholarship in the field.
| Preface | |
| The Origins of the French Revolution | |
| The Problems of the Monarchy | |
| The Failure of Reform Social Structure and Social Crisis | |
| The Third Estate | |
| The Lower Classes New Ideas and New Ways of Living | |
| The Growth of Public Opinion | |
| Notes | |
| The Collapse of the Absolute Monarchy, 1787-1789 | |
| The Prerevolution | ... MORE|
| The Assembly of Notables From Failed Reforms to Revolutionary Crisis | |
| The Meeting of the Estates-General | |
| The Parliamentary Revolution | |
| The Storming of the Bastille | |
| Notes | |
| The Revolutionary Rupture, 1789-1790 | |
| The Concept of Revolution | |
| The ldquo;Abolition of Feudalismrdquo; and the Declaration of Rights | |
| The October Days | |
| The Accomplishments of the National Assembly, 1789-1791 | |
| The Constitutional Debates | |
| The Expropriation of Church Lands and the Assignats | |
| The Civil Constitution of the Clergy | |
| Notes | |
| The Defeat of the Liberal Revolution, 1790-1792 | |
| The New Political Culture | |
| The Kingrsquo;s Flight and the Crisis of 1791 | |
| The End of the National Assembly | |
| The Legislative Assembly | |
| The Revolt in the Colonies and Unrest at Home | |
| The Move toward War | |
| The Impact of War | |
| The Overthrow of the Monarchy Emergency | |
| Measures and Revolutionary Government | |
| The Failure of the Liberal Revolution | |
| Notes | |
| The Convention and the Republic, 1792-1794 | |
| The Trial of the King Mounting Tensions | |
| The Victory of the Montagnards Terror Becomes the Order of the Day | |
| The Dictatorship of the Committee of Public Safety Revolutionary Culture | |
| The Radical Revolution and the Social Order | |
| The Great Terror and Thermidor | |
| The Revolution Victorious Thermidor | |
| Notes | |
| The Return to Order, 1794-1799 | |
| The ldquo;Bourgeois Republicrdquo; and the Search for Order | |
| The Thermidorian Reaction | |
| The Defeat of the Sans-Culottes Counterrevolution and the Constitution of 1795 | |
| The Directory | |
| The Directory, Europe, and the Colonies | |
| The ldquo;Politics of the Balancerdquo; | |
| The ldquo;Second Directoryrdquo; | |
| The Fall of the Directory | |
| The Napoleonic Consulate, 1799-1804 | |
| The Consul and the Consulate Napoleonrsquo;s Career | |
| The Institutions of the Consulate Consolidation of Power | |
| The Peace of Amiens and the Concordat Elements of Opposition | |
| Notes | |
| The Napoleonic Empire, 1804-1815 | |
| The Resumption of War From Ulm to Tilsit | |
| The Continental System | |
| The Empire at Home Culture under the Empire | |
| The Social Bases of the Empire | |
| The Decline of the Empire | |
| The Invasion of Russia | |
| The Hundred Days Note | |
| The Revolutionary Heritage | |
| The Postrevolutionary Settlement State and Nation | |
| The Revolutionrsquo;s Impact in the World | |
| The French Revolution as History | |
| The Jacobin Historical Synthesis | |
| The Revisionist Critique Postrevisionist Studies of | |
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Jeremy D. Popkin, T. Marshall Hahn, Jr., professor of history at the University of Kentucky, is the author of books on the history of the press during the French Revolution and on the revolutionary era in the French colonies.
