Table Of ContentFrench
society
in revolution
1789-1799
DAVID ANDRESS
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French society in
revolution, 1789-1799
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Contents
Acknowledgements pagevii
Chronology ix
Biographies xix
Introduction 1
1 France before Revolution 9
2 Reform and politicisation before 1789 29
3 The great year of Revolution - 1789 49
4 The reconstructive project and the political
landscape in 1790 69
5 Dissent, radicalisation and the descent to war,
1791-1792 89
6 War and the Girondin Republic, 1792-1793 108
7 Terror and the Jacobin Republic, 1793-1794 126
8 The quest for social order -Thermidor to Brumaire,
1794-1799 146
Conclusion 161
Selected documents 167
Bibliographical essay 200
Index 211
Acknowledgements
I should first like to thankthe editors of the New Frontiers series,
and especially Mark Greengrass, for taking on this project, and
for help and advice along the way. My thanks also to the various
staffatMURwithoutwhom thisbookwould stillbenomore than
a floppy disk. As usual, one's colleagues are a necessary support
in the long-drawn-out business of writing, and I would particu-
larly thank Brad Beaven and Mark Ledbury for their comrade-
ship and a long series of sanity-sustaining conversations. On a
more concrete note, Alan Forrest provided helpful commentary
on some chapters, and Paul Hanson read and annotated a com-
plete draft, for which I am extremely grateful. Jerry Emery and
Emma-Louise Marston also read drafts to give me the viewpoint
oftheintended readership, andwhile I hope theireducationben-
efited from the experience, I thankthem all the same. Finally, like
everything else, this bookis to Jessica, with love.
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