Revolutionary Ideas

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Prologue......Page 14
CHAPTER 1 Introduction......Page 19
CHAPTER 2 Revolution of the Press (1788–90)......Page 43
CHAPTER 3 From Estates-General to National Assembly (April–June 1789)......Page 66
CHAPTER 4 The Rights of Man: Summer and Autumn 1789......Page 85
CHAPTER 5 Democratizing the Revolution......Page 116
CHAPTER 6 Deadlock (November 1790–July 1791)......Page 154
CHAPTER 7 War with the Church (1788–92)......Page 193
CHAPTER 8 The Feuillant Revolution (July 1791–April 1792)......Page 217
CHAPTER 9 The “General Revolution” Begins (1791–92)......Page 244
CHAPTER 10 The Revolutionary Summer of 1792......Page 259
CHAPTER 11 Republicans Divided (September 1792–March 1793)......Page 291
CHAPTER 12 The “General Revolution” from Valmy to the Fall of Mainz (1792–93)......Page 329
CHAPTER 13 The World’s First Democratic Constitution (1793)......Page 358
CHAPTER 14 Education: Securing the Revolution......Page 387
CHAPTER 15 Black Emancipation......Page 409
CHAPTER 16 Robespierre’s Putsch (June 1793)......Page 433
CHAPTER 17 The Summer of 1793: Overturning the Revolution’s Core Values......Page 463
CHAPTER 18 De-Christianization (1793–94)......Page 492
CHAPTER 19 “The Terror” (September 1793–March 1794)......Page 516
CHAPTER 20 The Terror’s Last Months (March–July 1794)......Page 558
CHAPTER 21 Thermidor......Page 587
CHAPTER 22 Post-Thermidor (1795–97)......Page 606
CHAPTER 23 The “General Revolution” (1795–1800): Holland, Italy, and the Levant......Page 648
CHAPTER 24 The Failed Revolution (1797–99)......Page 683
CHAPTER 25 Conclusion: The Revolution as the Outcome of the Radical Enlightenment......Page 708
Cast of Main Participants......Page 722
Notes......Page 746
Bibliography......Page 816
Index......Page 846