Table of Contents

Part 1: Origins
1: Silvia Marzagalli: Economic and Demographic Developments
2: Lauren R. Clay: The Bourgeoisie, Capitalism, and the Origins of the French Revolution
3: Jay M. Smith: Nobility
4: Joël Félix: The monarchy
5: Simon Burrows: Books, Philosophy, Enlightenment
6: Annie Jourdan: Tumultuous Contexts and Radical Ideas (1783-89). The 'Pre-Revolution' in a Transnational Perspective
7: Thomas E. Kaiser: The Diplomatic Origins of the French Revolution
Part 2: The Coming of Revolution
8: John Hardman: The View from Above
9: Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire: The View from Below: the 1789 cahiers de doléances
10: Peter McPhee: A Social Revolution? Rethinking Popular Insurrection in 1789
11: Micah Alpaugh: A Personal Revolution: National Assembly Deputies and the Politics of 1789
Part 3: Revolution and Constitution
12: Michael P. Fitzsimmons: Sovereignty and Constitutional Power
13: Malcolm Crook: The New Regime: Political Institutions and Democratic Practices under the Constitutional Monarchy, 1789-91
14: Jeremy D. Popkin: Revolution and Changing Identities in France, 1787-1799
15: Edward J. Woell: Religion and Revolution
16: D. M. G. Sutherland: Urban Violence in 1789
17: Manuel Covo: Revolution, race and slavery
Part 4: Counter-revolution and collapse
18: Ambrogio Caiani: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
19: Kirsty Carpenter: Emigration in Politics and Imaginations
20: Noelle Plack: Challenges in the Countryside, 1790-2
21: Charles Walton: Club, Party and Faction
22: Alan Forrest: Military Trauma
Part 5: The New Republic
23: David Andress: Politics and Insurrection: The Sans-culottes, The 'Popular Movement' and the People of Paris
24: Marc Belissa: War and Diplomacy (1792-1795)
25: Paul Hanson: From Faction to Revolt
26: Dan Edelstein: What was the Terror?
27: Marisa Linton: Terror and Politics
28: Ronen Steinberg: Reckoning with Terror: Retribution, Redress, and Remembrance in Post-Revolutionary France
29: Mike Rapport: Jacobinism from Outside
Part 6: After Thermidor
30: Laura Mason: Thermidor and the Myth of Rupture
31: Howard G. Brown: The Politics of Public Order, 1795-1802
32: Jean-Luc Chappey: The New Elites: Questions about political, social and cultural reconstruction after the Terror
33: Philip Dwyer: Napoleon, The Revolution, and The Empire
34: Isser Woloch: Lasting Political Structures
35: Jeff Horn: Lasting Economic Structures: Successes, Failures, and Revolutionary Political Economy
36: Jennifer Heuer: Did Everything Change? Rethinking Revolutionary Legacies
37: David A. Bell: Global Conceptual Legacies

About the Author

David Andress received his DPhil from the University of York in 1995, and has worked at the University of Portsmouth for the last twenty years. He has published widely on the French Revolution, from micro-studies of Parisian responses in 1789-91 to introductory textbooks, and from monographs to major syntheses and works of comparative history. His most recent major contribution was as editor of the volume Experiencing the French Revolution (2013).

Reviews

This handbook is a gem ... a superb reference work that doubles as a good read for anyone interested in this massive and complex subject ... Essential.
*G. P. Cox, CHOICE*

The great success of this Handbook is to present a picture of the Revolution, and its historiography, as the hectic criss-crossing of many individual paths: this bustling, confusing, noisy, and fearful time of upheaval is well conveyed in these pages. The reader is given good directions to follow one, or many, of these paths in the ample footnotes and readings ... The Handbook offers a convenient and scholarly starting-point or refresher on many different aspects of that turbulent epoch and on its repercussions, one which will be valuable in teaching and research. The editor and his collaborators are to be congratulated.
*Dr Anne Byrne, Reviews in History*

David Andress, the editor, and his contributors should be warmly congratulated for providing generally excellent summaries of recent research on the French Revolution, together with stimulating suggestions for further investigation.
*Roger Price, Intelligence and National Security*

an excellent volume with a consistently high level of contribution.
*Neil Davidson, H-France Review*

This collection provides an excellent overview of the current state of French Revolution scholarship.
*Liam Chambers, BARS Review*