3. The Fall from Eden: The Free-Trade Origins of the French Revolution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Origins
6. 1. Th e Global Underground: Smuggling, Rebellion, and the Origins of the French Revolution 15
7. 2. The Global Financial Origins of 1789 32
8. 3. The Fall from Eden: The Free-Trade Origins of the French Revolution 44
9. 4. 1685 and the French Revolution 57
10. Part II. “Internal” Dynamics
11. 5. Colonizing France: Revolutionary Regeneration and the First French Empire 73
12. 6. Foreigners, Cosmopolitanism, and French Revolutionary Universalism 86
13. 7. Feminism and Abolitionism: Transatlantic Trajectories 101
14. Part III. Consequences
15. 8. Egypt in the French Revolution 115
16. 9. Abolition and Reenslavement in the Caribbean: Th e Revolution in French Guiana 132
17. 10. The French Revolutionary Wars and the Making of American Empire, 1783–1796 148
18. Part IV. Coda
19. 11. Every Revolution Is a War of Independence 165
20. Notes 183
21. Contributors 225
22. Index 229