A Short History of the French Revolution

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Images
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Preface to the Eighth Edition
Acknowledgments
1. The Origins of the French Revolution
	The Problems of the Monarchy
	The Failure of Reform
	Social Structure and Social Crisis
	The Third Estate
	The Lower Classes
	New Ideas and New Ways of Living
	The Growth of Public Opinion
	Critical Thinking Questions
2. The Collapse of the Absolute Monarchy, 1787–1789
	The Prerevolution
	The Assembly of Notables
	From Failed Reforms to Revolutionary Crisis
	The Summoning of the Estates General
	The Parliamentary Revolution
	The Storming of the Bastille
	Critical Thinking Questions
3. The Revolutionary Rupture, 1789–1790
	The Experience of Revolution
	The “Abolition of Feudalism” and the Declaration of Rights
	The Constitutional Debates
	The October Days
	Defining Rights and Redrawing Boundaries
	The Expropriation of Church Lands and the Assignats
	The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
	The Revolution and Europe
	Critical Thinking Questions
4. The Defeat of the Liberal Revolution, 1790–1792
	The New Political Culture
	The King’s Flight and the Crisis of 1791
	The Last Months of the National Assembly
	The Legislative Assembly
	Revolt in Saint-Domingue and Unrest at Home
	The Move toward War
	The Impact of War
	The Overthrow of the Monarchy
	Emergency Measures and Revolutionary Government
	The Failure of the Liberal Revolution
	Critical Thinking Questions
5. The Convention and the Radical Republic, 1792–1794
	The Trial of the King
	Mounting Tensions
	The Victory of the Montagnards
	Radicalism and Terror
	The Dictatorship of the Committee of Public Safety
	Revolutionary Culture
	The Radical Revolution and the Social Order
	The Great Terror and Thermidor
	The Revolution Victorious
	Thermidor
	Critical Thinking Questions
6. The Return to Order, 1794–1799
	The “Bourgeois Republic” and the Search for Order
	The Thermidorian Reaction
	The Defeat of the Sans-Culottes
	Counterrevolution and the Constitution of 1795
	The Directory
	The Directory, Europe, and the Colonies
	The “Politics of the Balance”
	The “Second Directory”
	The Fall of the Directory
	Critical Thinking Questions
7. The Napoleonic Consulate, 1799–1804
	The Consul and the Consulate
	Napoleon’s Career
	The Institutions of the Consulate
	Napoleon’s Consolidation of Power
	The Peace of Amiens and the Concordat
	Elements of Opposition
	Critical Thinking Questions
8. The Napoleonic Empire, 1804–1815
	The Resumption of War
	From Ulm to Tilsit
	The Continental System
	The Empire at Home
	The Social Bases of the Empire
	Culture under the Empire
	The Decline of the Empire
	The Invasion of Russia
	The Hundred Days
	Critical Thinking Questions
9. The Revolutionary Heritage
	The Postrevolutionary Settlement
	State and Nation
	The Revolution’s Impact in the World
	The French Revolution as History
	The Jacobin Historical Synthesis
	The Revisionist Critique
	Postrevisionist Studies of the Revolution
	Critical Thinking Questions
Appendix Chronology of Principal Events during the French Revolution
	Prerevolutionary Crisis (January 1, 1787–May 5, 1789)
	The Liberal Revolution (May 5, 1789–August 10, 1792)
	The Radical Revolution (August 10, 1792–July 27, 1794)
	The Thermidorian and Directory Periods (July 27, 1794–November 9, 1799)
	The Napoleonic Period (November 9, 1799–June 18, 1815)
Suggestions for Further Reading
	Journals and Reference Works
	Specialized Titles: Select Bibliography
Index