The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution

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David Andress (Professor of Modern History, Professor of Modern History, University of Portsmouth)

The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution

David Andress (Professor of Modern History, Professor of Modern History, University of Portsmouth)

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Oxford University Press
21 June 2019

History; European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; French Revolution; Revolutionary groups & movements

Series: Oxford Handbooks

The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations of academic thinking on key topics, along with stimulating and provocative interpretations and suggestions for future research directions. Placing core dimensions of the history of the French Revolution in their transnational and global contexts, the contributors demonstrate that revolutionary times demand close analysis of sometimes tiny groups of key political actors - whether the king and his ministers or the besieged leaders of the Jacobin republic - and attention to the deeply local politics of both rural and urban populations. Identities of class, gender and ethnicity are interrogated, but so too are conceptions and practices linked to citizenship, community, order, security, and freedom: each in their way just as central to revolutionary experiences, and equally amenable to critical analysis and reflection. This Handbook covers the structural and political contexts that build up to give new views on the classic question of the 'origins of revolution'; the different dimensions of personal and social experience that illuminate the political moment of 1789 itself; the goals and dilemmas of the period of constitutional monarchy; the processes of destabilisation and ongoing conflict that ended that experiment; the key issues surrounding the emergence and experience of 'terror'; and the short- and long-term legacies, for both good and ill, of the revolutionary trauma - for France, and for global politics.

Edited by: David Andress (Professor of Modern History Professor of Modern History University of Portsmouth)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 171mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 1.200kg
ISBN: 9780198845942
ISBN 10: 0198845944
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 704
Publication Date: 21 June 2019
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Andress received his DPhil from the University of York in 1995, and has worked at the University of Portsmouth for the last twenty years. He has published widely on the French Revolution, from micro-studies of Parisian responses in 1789-91 to introductory textbooks, and from monographs to major syntheses and works of comparative history.

Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution

This collection provides an excellent overview of the current state of French Revolution scholarship. * Liam Chambers, BARS Review * an excellent volume with a consistently high level of contribution. * Neil Davidson, H-France Review * David Andress, the editor, and his contributors should be warmly congratulated for providing generally excellent summaries of recent research on the French Revolution, together with stimulating suggestions for further investigation. * Roger Price, Intelligence and National Security * The great success of this Handbook is to present a picture of the Revolution, and its historiography, as the hectic criss-crossing of many individual paths: this bustling, confusing, noisy, and fearful time of upheaval is well conveyed in these pages. The reader is given good directions to follow one, or many, of these paths in the ample footnotes and readings ... The Handbook offers a convenient and scholarly starting-point or refresher on many different aspects of that turbulent epoch and on its repercussions, one which will be valuable in teaching and research. The editor and his collaborators are to be congratulated. * Dr Anne Byrne, Reviews in History * This handbook is a gem ... a superb reference work that doubles as a good read for anyone interested in this massive and complex subject ... Essential. * G. P. Cox, CHOICE *