
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The French Revolution and Napoleon
About this book
Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer's The French Revolution and Napoleon provides a globally-oriented narrative history of events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon. It emphasizes the global origins and consequences of the French Revolution and explains why it is the formative event for modern politics. The book integrates global competition, fiscal crisis, slavery and the beginnings of nationalism with the more traditional emphases on human rights and constitutions, terror and violence, and the rise of authoritarianism. This global approach then enables the authors โ two world-renowned scholars in the field โ to clearly illustrate how the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire changed all the political givens for Europe, the Americas, North Africa and parts of Asia as well. Including numerous illustrations and maps, end-of-chapter questions, timelines and primary source document extracts for analysis in each chapter, this book is essential reading for all students of modern European history who want to understand the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire in a truly global context.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Preface
- 1 1789: A world overturned
- 2 The power of the people, 1789โ1792
- 3 A republic in constant crisis, 1792โ1794
- 4 The power of the military, 1794โ1799
- 5 From Bonapartist republic to Napoleonic empire, 1800โ1807
- 6 The Napoleonic eagle soars and finally plummets, 1808โ1815
- Conclusion: Crucible of the modern world
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright