From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond revisionist historians of the 1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial policy. In this book, seven established authorities explore some of these critical intersections, and together they make clear the role that unresolved tensions in these realms played in the essentially political narrative told by post-Marxian revisionist historiography. While each chapter of From Deficit to Deluge focuses upon one site of contention-fiscal, social, religious, diplomatic, ideological, and colonial-they all help to explain how long-standing structural problems of the Old Regime caused a fairly normal fiscal crisis to metastasize into a revolution. As the editors show in their introduction and conclusion, the growing democratization of politics sparked by the monarchy's clumsy efforts to solve the fiscal crisis put these wide-ranging problems at the epicenter of political debate, thereby sapping the foundations of royal authority and the social hierarchy.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-13
9780804772815
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99920337
Product Key Features
Author
Dale K. Van Kley, Thomas E. Kaiser
Publication Name
From Deficit to Deluge: the Origins of the French Revolution
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
476g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Dale K. Van Kley, Thomas E. Kaiser
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