French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies / Edition 2

by Gary Kates

Overview

The French Revolution is a collection of key texts at the forefront of current research and interpretation, challenging orthodox assumptions concerning the origins, development and long-term historical consequences of the Revolution. The volume includes a clear

and thorough introduction by the editor which contextualises the historiographical controversies, especially those dating from 1989.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900415358339
Publication date:	10/24/2005
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Gary Kates

Table of Contents

PART I: THE OVERTHROW OF THE MARXIST PARADIGM

1. Albert Soboul -- The French Revolution in the History of the Contemporary World

2. Colin Lucas -- Nobles, Bourgeois, and the Origins of the French Revolution

PART II: THE REVISIONIST

ORTHODOXY

3. Francois Furet -- The French Revolution Revisited

4. Keith Michael Baker -- The Idea of a Declaration of Rights

PART III: NEO-LIBERAL RESPONSES TO REVISIONISM

5. William H. Sewell, Jr -- A Rhetoric of Bourgeois

Revolution

6. Colin Jones -- Bourgeois Revolution Revivified: 1789 and Social Change

7. Timothy Tackett -- Nobles and Third Estate in the Revolutionary Dynamic of the National Assembly, 1789-90

8. John Markoff -- Violence, Emancipation, and Democracy: The

Countryside and the French Revolution

PART IV: GENDER STUDIES

9. Lynn Hunt -- The Many Bodies of Marie Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution

10. Olwen Hufton -- In Search of Counter-Revolutionary

Women

PART V: NAPOLEON AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

11. Francois Furet -- Napoleon Bonaparte