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French Revolution recent debates and new controversies - 2nd - London Routledge 2006 - xii, 291 p. 24 cm - Rewriting histories .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The French Revolution in the history of the contemporary world / Albert Soboul -- Nobles, bourgeois, and the origins of the French Revolution / Colin Lucas -- The French Revolution revisited / François Furet -- Constitution / Keith M. Baker -- Bourgeois revolution revivified : 1789 and social change / Colin Jones -- Luxury, morality, and social change: why there was no middle-class consciousness in prerevolutionary France / Sarah Maza -- Nobles and third estate in the revolutionary dynamic of the National Assembly, 1789-90 / Timothy Tackett -- Violence, emancipation, and democracy: the countryside and the French Revolution / John Markoff -- The many bodies of Marie Antoinette: political pornography and the problem of the feminine in the French Revolution / Lynn Hunt -- War between brothers and sisters: inheritance law and gender politics in revolutionary France / Suzanne Desan -- The price of liberty: Victor Hugues and the administration of freedom in Guadeloupe, 1794-1798 / Laurent Dubois.

ISBN: 9780415358330

LCCN: 2005013088

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Historians--Political and social views.
Civilization, Modern--French influences.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
France--History--Influence.--Revolution, 1789-1799
France--History--Historiography.--Revolution, 1789-1799

LC Class. No.: DC148 / .F727 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 944.04 / FR-