The article discusses factors that contributed to the development of the French Revolution, including its social and political origins.
French Revolution.
French Revolution, political upheaval of world importance in France that began in 1789.
The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution.
The article discusses the significance of French revolutionary leader Jacques-Pierre Brissot to the initiation of the French Revolution and his philosophical clash with French politician Maximilien Robespierre concerning potential war with Austria.
Thermidor and the French Revolution.
An introduction is presented which cites the theme of a special section of the issue, the Thermidorian Reaction of 1794-1795, and discusses articles in the section on topics including the historiography of the overthrow of French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre, political purges, and Thermidorian policy on slavery.
Though recent scholars have argued that no self-defining “bourgeois” identities existed during the French Revolution, such perspectives do not consider the pivotal role Milice bourgeoise forces played in the Bastille insurrection and France's broader social upheavals of mid-1789.
The article discusses the influence of the English Civil Wars and Great Britain's Glorious Revolution on the French Revolution a century later.
French revolutionary legislators faced assassins, violent insurrections, and the risk of being injured or killed while on mission. Statistically, however, the most dangerous place for them was their own legislative assembly. As full-scale parliamentary warfare erupted between different political "factions" in the founding year of the republic, the safeguards of parliamentary immunity were removed and hundreds of legislators were purged.
Black and White Photographs; Focuses on the role of pets to maintain the morale and uplift the spirits of the royal prisoners during the French Revolution.
European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789-1802.
During the French Revolution, the comparative geographer Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage lost his patron, his job, and (most importantly) his access to source materials. Working for ministry map depots, however, he was able to forge new alliances and, by acting as a broker between different actors and interests, mobilize new networks of accumulation inside France and across central and eastern Europe.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The French Revolution in global perspective.
Describes how the French Revolutionary notions of liberty, equality and fraternity acted as a crucial catalyst for race and class uprisings in Europe's Caribbean colonies.
Questioning the Global Turn: The Case of the French Revolution.
The essay considers the historiography of the French Revolution, focusing on global or transnational historical perspectives considering works by historians including Lynn Hunt , Pierre Serna, and R. R. Palmer.
French Revolutionary Wars.
BASTILLE DAY IN BAGHDAD.
The article discusses the Iraq Revolution of 1958. Particular focus is given to what the author sees as similarities between the regicidal overthrow of King Faisal I and the French Revolution, symbolized by the storming of the Bastille which occurred in 1789 on the same date as the later Iraq Revolution.
Discusses the effect of the French Revolution on the literature of that period, including the fusion of Enlightenment ideals with revolutionary fervor.
'The fault of being purely French': The Practice and Theory of Landscape Painting in Post-Revolutionary France.
Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution.
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre.
Popular theatre in the French Revolution.
Discusses the way in the French Revolution's progress is clarified or modified in the art and images created by commercial print publishers in France in the early years of the revolution.
The article discusses the writing of exemplary history, or history that stresses the individual as a historical agent and the biographical life as a way of understanding history, in relation to the history of the French Revolution.
Turbulent priests? The Church and the Revolution.
Revolution, in a political sense, fundamental and violent change in the values, political institutions, social structure, leadership, and policies of a society. The totality of change implicit in this definition distinguishes it from coups, rebellions, and wars of independence, which involve only partial change. Examples include the French, Russian, Chinese, Cuban, and Iranian revolutions.
This is a chronological list of events related to the French Revolution that appear in the book 'The Oxford History of the French Revolution.'
Revolution from Above and Below: European Politics from the French Revolution to the First World War.
The French Revolution in Global Perspective.
Surviving the French Revolution: A Bridge Across Time.
The article discusses changes in historiography and scholarship of the French Revolution following its bicentennial. The author comments on his experiences during a conference held at Stanford University regarding the French Revolution and notes conflicts between Marxist and revisionist views of the Revolution.
ROBESPIERRE AND THE TERROR.
The French legislative election of April 23, 1848, was one of the first examples of a ritual that has become central to modern democracy: the consecration by a population of a new political order to replace a fallen regime.
The article discusses the revolutionary nature of the terrorist organization the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), with a particular focus on its role in acting like a state and the power it has throughout the world. The article compares the revolutionary nature of ISIS with revolutions throughout history, including the French Revolution in the late 18th century and the Bolshevik revolution in the early 20th century.
The article discusses the political and social revolutions of 2011 in Arab countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya and examines how communication has played a role in spreading revolutionary ideas throughout history. It discusses how online social media such as Facebook and Twitter helped to mobilize citizens and aid the Arab revolts of 2011, argues that political revolutions have characteristics that make them both national and international actions, and describes several waves of historical revolutions including the American and French revolutions of the late 1700s, the European revolutions of 1848, and the democratic revolutions in Europe and Asia during the 1980s and 1990s.
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