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From Deficit to Deluge: The Origins of the French Revolution

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Description for From Deficit to Deluge: The Origins of the French Revolution Paperback. Seven authorities in their respective fields come together to offer a new interpretation of the French Revolution: they show how the French monarchy's clumsy efforts to solve a fiscal crisis politicized long-standing structural problems, metastasizing an apparently fairly "normal" fiscal crisis into a revolution. Editor(s): Kaiser, Thomas E.; Van Kley, Dale K. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HBTV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 492.

From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the 1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial policy. In this book, seven established authorities explore some of these critical intersections, and together they make clear the role that unresolved tensions in these realms played in the essentially political narrative told by post-Marxian revisionist historiography.

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804772815
SKU
V9780804772815
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About Thomas E. Kaiser (Ed.)
Thomas E. Kaiser is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Dale K. Van Kley is Professor of Early Modern European History at The Ohio State University.

Reviews for From Deficit to Deluge: The Origins of the French Revolution
"This book undoubtedly makes an inspiring contribution to the debate on the origins of 1789. Its nuanced approach to how the changing institutional, fiscal, political, social, and economic landscape of eighteenth-century France simultaneously influenced and was influenced by specific contingencies and historical players will make it an important first port of call for students, and veteran scholars, of the French ... Read more

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