ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages with some of the most recent trends in French revolutionary scholarship by considering the Revolution in its global context. Across seventeen chapters an international team of contributors examine the impact of the Revolution not only on its European neighbours but on Latin America, North America and Africa, assess how far events there impacted on the Revolution in France, and suggest something of the Revolution’s enduring legacy in the modern world.
The Companion views the French Revolution through a deliberately wide lens. The first section deals with its global repercussions from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and includes a discussion of major insurrections such as those in Haiti and Venezuela. Three chapters then dissect the often complex and entangled relations with other revolutionary movements, in seventeenth-century Britain, the American colonies and Meiji Japan. The focus then switches to international involvement in the events of 1789 and the circulation of ideas, people, goods and capital. In a final section contributors throw light on how the Revolution was and is still remembered across the globe, with chapters on Russia, China and Australasia. An introduction by the editors places the Revolution in its political, historical and historiographical context.
The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History is a timely and important contribution to scholarship of the French Revolution.
Introduction 1. Alan Forrest/ Matthias Middell, Introduction Section I: Global Repercussions of the French Revolution Section introduction: The French Revolution and the Wider World 2. Matthias Middell, The French Revolution in the global world of the eighteenth century; 3. Pierre Serna, Federating Europe? Sister Republics under the Directory 4. Frédéric Régent, Revolution in France, Revolutions in the Caribbean 5. Michael Zeuske, Miranda and revolutionary thought in Latin America; 6. Rachida Tlili, The French Revolution and the Mediterranean 7. Ian Coller, The French Revolution and the Islamic World Section II: Topics of a Transnational History of the French Revolution: Comparisons Section introduction: The French Revolution in a Comparative Perspective 8. Robert Griffiths, Cross-Channel Entanglements: 1689-1789 9. David Andress: Atlantic Entanglements: Comparing the French and American Revolutions 10. Hiroshi Mitani, Meiji Regeneration of Japan: an Alternative Model of Revolution? Section III. Topics of a Transnational History of the French Revolution: Entanglements Section introduction: Dimensions of Revolutionary Entanglement 11. Alan Forrest, War and Cultural Exchange in Europe 12. Annie Jourdan, Napoleonic Europe and the Legacy of the French Revolution; 13. Ultán Gillen, Irish Revolutionaries and the French Revolution 14. Pascal Dupuy, British Radicals and the Image of Revolutionary France Section IV: Traditions of Seeing and Interpreting the French Revolution Section introduction: Remembrance and Political Reference 15. Peter McPhee: The French Revolution seen from the Terres Australes; 16. Alexander Tchoudinov, The Evolution of the Russian Discourse on the French Revolution; 17. Gao Yi, French Revolutionary Violence: a Talisman for the Chinese Communist Party?
