Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Financial Origins of the French Revolution 37
6. Chapter 2. The Social Origins of the French Revolution Revisited 67
7. Chapter 3. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, 1560–1791 104
8. Chapter 4. From Fiscal Crisis to Revolution: The Court and French Foreign Policy, 1787–1789 139
9. Chapter 5. Enlightenment Idioms, Old Regime Discourses, and Revolutionary Improvisation 165
10. Chapter 6. Gender in Pre-Revolutionary Political Culture 198
11. Chapter 7. Saint-Domingue, Slavery, and the Origins of the French Revolution 220
12. Conclusion: From Old Regime to French Revolution 249
13. Notes 271
14. Index 323
15. Contributors 343