The French Revolution and Napoleon: A SourcebookPhilip 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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... Estates-General convened for 1 May 1789. Royal Council decrees doubling of the number of Third Estate's representatives. Sieyes publishes Qu'est-ce qtte le Tiers fctat? Elections to the Estates-General. Opening of the Estates-General at ...
... Estates-General in return for approval of a loan. The following May Lamoignon issued six edicts aimed at undermining the judicial and political power of the Parlements, provoking rioting in Paris and provincial centres. In July Louis ...
... Estate representation at the approaching Estates- General. Five of the seven princes signed the document. While Louis' youngest brother, the comte d'Artois, signed, a notable absence was the next youngest brother, the comte de Provence ...
... Estate?,. January. 1789. During the debate over the composition of the Estates-General, a 40- year-old priest of bourgeois background, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes, contributed the most remarkable of his several pamphlets, titled What is the ...
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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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The French Revolution and Napoleon: A Sourcebook Philip G. Dwyer,Peter McPhee Begrenset visning - 2002 |
The French Revolution and Napoleon: A Sourcebook Philip G. Dwyer,Peter McPhee Begrenset visning - 2002 |