Reinterpreting the French Revolution

In Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Perspective , Bailey Stone investigates the impact of France’s geo-strategic needs on the French Revolution, and especially on domestic reform in this period. While admitting that the ideological, political and social pressures on French policy makers were immense, Stone asserts that the main motivation—and at times the main obstacle—to domestic reform was the revolutionaries’ desire to re-establish France as a great European power—especially faced with Russia, Prussia and Britain. In insisting that there was a primacy of foreign policy in the minds and actions of the French revolutionaries, Stone is still careful to consider socio-economic, political and cultural interpretations of the period and hopes to combine these various approaches under a ‘global-historical’ umbrella. The author thus provides a thorough introduction to the historical debates on the Revolution, which will be especially useful to those not overly familiar with the subject. Much the same...

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