| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 345 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Thomas E. Kaiser and Dale K. Van Kley -- Financial origins of the French Revolution / Gail Bossenga -- The social origins of the French Revolution revisited / Jack A. Goldstone -- The religious origins of the French Revolution, 1560-1791 / Dale K. Van Kley -- From fiscal crisis to revolution : the court and French foreign policy, 1787-1789 / Thomas E. Kaiser -- Enlightenment idioms, Old Regime discourses, and revolutionary improvisation / Keith Michael Baker -- Gender in pre-revolutionary political culture / Jeffrey Merrick -- Saint-Domingue, slavery, and the origins of the French Revolution / Jeremy D. Popkin -- Conclusion : from Old Regime to French Revolution / Thomas E. Kaiser and Dale K. Van Kley |
| Summary |
From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the 1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial policy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY.
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Historiography
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War -- Causes
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Französische Revolution
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Ursache
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Französische Revolution.
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Ursache.
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| SUBJECT |
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Historiography
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaiser, Thomas E
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Van Kley, Dale K., 1941-
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| ISBN |
9780804777193 |
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0804777195 |
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