The French Revolution: Faith, Desire, and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781138336971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 276 str.

Noah Shusterman

Opis

Now in its second edition, The French Revolution: Faith, Desire, and Politics has been updated to include a discussion about how the actions by soldiers and citizen-soldiers shaped the course of the Revolution, as well as the daily lives and concerns of everyday French people.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Religious culture, popular culture: life in Old Regime France  2. The liberal Revolution of 1789 (spring 1789–spring 1790)  3. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (summer 1790–spring 1791)  4. The king’s flight and the decline of the French monarchy (summer 1791–summer 1792)  5. The end of the monarchy and the September Massacres (summer 1792–fall 1792)  6. The new French republic and its rivalries (fall 1792–summer 1793)  7. The federalist revolt, the Vendée, and the start of the Terror (summer 1793–fall 1793)  8. The Reign of Terror (fall 1793–summer 1794)  9. After the Terror (fall 1794–1799)

O autorze

Noah Shusterman teaches at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His works include Religion and the Politics of the Time: Holidays from Louis XVI to Napoleon (2010) and Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment (2020).