France And The Atlantic Revolution: Of The Eighteenth Century, 1770-1799
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Pages: Yellowed
At the close of the eighteenth century, a revolutionary tide swept across the Atlantic world, overturning monarchies, redrawing borders, and forever altering the relationship between rulers and the ruled — and Jacques Godechot's France and the Atlantic Revolution of the Eighteenth Century, 1770–1799 stands as the definitive account of that seismic transformation. The work argues that the American and French Revolutions were not isolated national events but twin expressions of a broader, interconnected Atlantic revolution, tracing the ideological currents, political upheavals, and social convulsions that linked the Old World and the New across three tumultuous decades. Godechot, one of the foremost French historians of the revolutionary era, presents his landmark Atlantic Revolution thesis with rigorous scholarship and sweeping narrative authority, drawing on deep archival research to illuminate the transnational networks of republican thought and armed insurrection. His comparative methodology challenges parochial interpretations of the period, situating the fall of the Bastille alongside the American Declaration of Independence as part of a single democratic revolution. For any reader seeking to understand how the modern democratic world was forged in fire and ideology, this work remains an indispensable — and electrifying — starting point.
Author: Jacques Godechot
Format: Hardback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
At the close of the eighteenth century, a revolutionary tide swept across the Atlantic world, overturning monarchies, redrawing borders, and forever altering the relationship between rulers and the ruled — and Jacques Godechot's France and the Atlantic Revolution of the Eighteenth Century, 1770–1799 stands as the definitive account of that seismic transformation. The work argues that the American and French Revolutions were not isolated national events but twin expressions of a broader, interconnected Atlantic revolution, tracing the ideological currents, political upheavals, and social convulsions that linked the Old World and the New across three tumultuous decades. Godechot, one of the foremost French historians of the revolutionary era, presents his landmark Atlantic Revolution thesis with rigorous scholarship and sweeping narrative authority, drawing on deep archival research to illuminate the transnational networks of republican thought and armed insurrection. His comparative methodology challenges parochial interpretations of the period, situating the fall of the Bastille alongside the American Declaration of Independence as part of a single democratic revolution. For any reader seeking to understand how the modern democratic world was forged in fire and ideology, this work remains an indispensable — and electrifying — starting point.