ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages with some of the most recent trends in French revolutionary scholarship by considering the Revolution in its global context. Across seventeen chapters an international team of contributors examine the impact of the Revolution not only on its European neighbours but on Latin America, North America and Africa, assess how far events there impacted on the Revolution in France, and suggest something of the Revolution’s enduring legacy in the modern world.

The Companion views the French Revolution through a deliberately wide lens. The first section deals with its global repercussions from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and includes a discussion of major insurrections such as those in Haiti and Venezuela. Three chapters then dissect the often complex and entangled relations with other revolutionary movements, in seventeenth-century Britain, the American colonies and Meiji Japan. The focus then switches to international involvement in the events of 1789 and the circulation of ideas, people, goods and capital. In a final section contributors throw light on how the Revolution was and is still remembered across the globe, with chapters on Russia, China and Australasia. An introduction by the editors places the Revolution in its political, historical and historiographical context.

The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History is a timely and important contribution to scholarship of the French Revolution.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

section |54 pages

Topics of a transnational history of the French Revolution

chapter |22 pages

Cross-Channel Entanglements

1689–1789

chapter |16 pages

Atlantic Entanglements

Comparing the French and American Revolutions

chapter |14 pages

Japan's Meiji Revolution

An alternative model of revolution?

section |71 pages

Topics of a transnational history of the French Revolution

chapter |17 pages

Napoleon and Europe

The legacy of the French Revolution

chapter |19 pages

British Radicals and Revolutionary France

Historiography, history and images

section |59 pages

Traditions of seeing and interpreting the French Revolution