Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer’s The French Revolution and Napoleon provides a globally-oriented narrative history of events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon. It emphasizes the global origins and consequences of the French Revolution and explains why it is the formative event for modern politics.
The book integrates global competition, fiscal crisis, slavery and the beginnings of nationalism with the more traditional emphases on human rights and constitutions, terror and violence, and the rise of authoritarianism. This global approach then enables the authors – two world-renowned scholars in the field – to clearly illustrate how the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire changed all the political givens for Europe, the Americas, North Africa and parts of Asia as well.
Including numerous illustrations and maps, end-of-chapter questions, timelines and primary source document extracts for analysis in each chapter, this book is essential reading for all students of modern European history who want to understand the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire in a truly global context.
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List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface
1. 1789: A World Overturned
2. The Power of the People, 1789-1792
3. A Republic in Constant Crisis, 1792-1794
4. The Power of the Military, 1794-1799
5. From Bonapartist Republic to Napoleonic Empire, 1800-1807
6. The Napoleonic Eagle Soars and Finally Plummets, 1808-1815
Conclusion: Crucible of the Modern World
Notes
Index
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The authors provide excellent coverage of the French Revolution for an undergraduate audience with little familiarity with the topic … this book should prove quite attractive to those searching for a survey course textbook.
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A global narrative history of the French Revolution from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon that emphasizes its global origins and consequences and explains why it is the formative event for modern politics.
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Provides a narrative history of the French Revolution in a truly global context
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781474213714
Publisert
2017-09-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
402 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256