The French Revolution
The French Revolution

Author: David Andress

Publisher: Apollo

Published: 2022-12-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1788540085

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In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues that it was the peasantry of France who made and defended the Revolution of 1789. That the peasant revolution benefitted far more people, in more far reaching ways, than the revolution of lawyerly elites and urban radicals that has dominated our view of the revolutionary period. History has paid more attention to Robespierre, Danton and Bonaparte than it has to the millions of French peasants who were the first to rise up in 1789, and the most ardent in defending changes in land ownership and political rights. 'Those furthest from the center rarely get their fair share of the light', Andress writes, and the peasants were patronized, reviled and often persecuted by urban elites for not following their lead. Andress's book reveals a rural world of conscious, hard-working people and their struggles to defend their ways of life and improve the lives of their children and communities.

Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution

Author: Edward James Kolla

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1107179548

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This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.

The French Revolution and Historical Materialism
The French Revolution and Historical Materialism

Author: Henry Heller

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-03

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9004345868

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This text reasserts the Marxist view of the French Revolution as a bourgeois and capitalist revolution. Based mainly on articles published in the journal Historical Materialism it challenges the still dominant revisionist view of the French Revolution. It serves to restore the close tie between the history of the Old Regime and the Revolution. It demonstrates that the rise of a bourgeois capitalist class has a long history dating back to the sixteenth century. Moreover, it shows that the Revolution itself played a large role in strengthening the bourgeoisie politically and economically while bringing about the unification of financial and productive capital. Indeed, it shows that the rising of the masses during the Revolution, viewed by revisionism as economically regressive, in fact helped to bring about the consolidation of capitalism.

The Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution

Author: Toussaint L'Ouverture

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1788736575

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Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality.