Description
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the impact of revolution on the French from the Revolution of 1789 to its centenary in 1889. It explores specific and linking factors in the main revolts and how historians have differed in their explanations.
Revolution has been explained in a multitude of ways from economic, social and philosophic, to a range of identities including religion, race and gender, contingency, emotions, and most recently global factors. The nineteenth-century French state was threatened by an unprecedented number of revolts. What impact did the 1789 Revolution have on nineteenth-century events? Why were there so many revolutions at the time? Were there common factors? Were non-revolutionary issues as significant or more significant in provoking change? Why was it that insurrection was rarer in the second half of the century when revolutionary rhetoric was more prolific? The book weighs political and philosophical differences, lack of trust and willingness to compromise, eco
Table of Contents
1. Legacy of 1789 2. Memory, Monuments and Symbols of 1789 3. Narrative of Nineteenth-Century Revolutions 4. Shared Themes in Nineteenth-Century Revolutions 5. France Abroad 6. Historians of Revolution. Conclusion. Documents
