French society in revolution 17891799

By (author) David Andress

Publication date:

01 April 1999

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9780719051913

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

French society in revolution aims to retrieve the social history of the French Revolution from unjustified neglect.

This study examines both the structural and cultural elements behind the breakdown of the eighteenth-century monarchic state and its aris. . . .

Introduction
1. France before Revolution
2. The emergence of political involvement, 1787-1789
3. The Great Journees, July-October 1789
4. The Reconstructive Project, 1790-1791
5. The Breakdown of the Socio-Political Order, 1791-1792
6. The Supremacy of Politics? Terror, 1792-1794
7. The Quest for Social Order - Thermidor and beyond
Conclusion