The French Revolution and Napoleon: A Sourcebook

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Philip Dwyer, Peter McPhee
Routledge, 1. nov. 2002 - 192 sider

The upheavals, terror, and drama of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period restructured politics and society on a grand scale, making this the defining moment for modern European history.

This volume collects together a wide selection of primary texts to explain the process behind the enormous changes undergone by France and Europe between 1787 and 1815, from the Terror to the Counter-Revolution and from Marie-Antoinette to Robespierre and Bonaparte. While bringing the impact of historical events to life, Philip Dwyer and Peter McPhee provide a clear outline of the period through key documents and lucid introductory passages and commentary. They illustrate the meaning of the Revolution for peasants, sans-culottes, women, and slaves, as well as placing events within a wider European context..

Students will find this an invaluable source of information on the Revolution as a whole as well as the international significance of the events.

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The Ancien Regime challenged
1
Revolutionary action
16
Creating a regenerated France
24
Exclusions and inclusions
35
The Church and the revolutionary State
43
Monarchy and revolution
51
The Revolution at war
60
The peasantry and the rural environment
80
The Directory
121
Bonaparte
128
Law and order
140
Rule by plebiscite
149
Governing the Empire
155
Resistance and repression
169
The Russian catastrophe
175
Collapse
187

The republic at war
90
Revolt in the Vendee
97
The Terror at work
103
The Thermidorian reaction
115
The Hundred Days
193
French men and women reflect
202
Index
209
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