The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization

The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization
ISBN-10
3110620294
ISBN-13
9783110620290
Category
History
Pages
262
Language
English
Published
2019-09-23
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Authors
Megan Maruschke, Matthias Middell

Description

The French Revolution has primarily been understood as a national event that also had a lasting impact in Europe and in the Atlantic world. Recently, historiography has increasingly emphasized how France’s overseas colonies also influenced the contours of the French Revolution. This volume examines the effects of both dimensions on the reorganization of spatial formats and spatial orders in France and in other societies. It departs from the assumption that revolutions shatter not only the political and economic old regime order at home but, in an increasingly interdependent world, also result in processes of respatialization. The French Revolution, therefore, is analysed as a key event in a global history that seeks to account for the shifting spatial organization of societies on a transregional scale.

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