Introduction: Rethinking the Revolutionary Everyday / Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer -- Part 1: Revolutionary Identities and Spaces : 1. Republicans and Royalists: Seeking Authentic Rural Voices in the Sources of the French Revolution / Jill Maciak Walshaw -- 2. Mapping Women's Everyday Lives in Revolutionary Marseille / Laura Talamante -- 3. Emigration, Landlords, and Tenants in Revolutionary Paris / Hannah Callaway -- 4. Home Fronts and Battlefields: The Army, Warfare, and the Revolutionary Experience / Christopher Tozzi -- 5. Race, Freedom, and Everyday Life: French Caribbean Prisoners of War in Britain /Abigail Coppins and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer -- Part 2: The Right To? - Revolutionary Justice at Work : 6. Crime, Law, and Justice / Claire Cage -- 7. Surveillance at Work: A Theft on the Rue du Bac / Ralph Kingston -- 8. Sex as Work: Public Women in Revolutionary Paris / Clyde Plumauzille -- 9. Doctors, Radicalism, and the Right to Health: Three Visions from the French Revolution / Sean M. Quinlan -- Part 3: Revolutionary Experience, Practices, Sensations : 10. Tasting Liberty: Food and Revolution / E. C. Spary -- 11. Spectacles of French Revolutionary Violence in the Atlantic World / Ashli White -- 12. Practice and Belief: Religion in the Revolution / Jonathan Smyth -- 13. Facing the Unknown: The Private Lives of Miniatures in the French Revolutionary Prison / Sophie Matthiesson -- 14. Revolutionary Parents and Children: Everyday Lives in Times of Stress / Si<U+fffd>an Reynolds.
Summary:
"The French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. 'Life in Revolutionary France' asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new research on how people experienced and survived the revolutionary decade, with a particular focus on individual and collective agency as discovered through the archival record, material culture, and the history of emotions. It combines innovative work with student-friendly essays to offer fresh perspectives on topics such as: Political identities and activism; Gender, race, and sexuality; Transatlantic responses to war and revolution; Local and workplace surveillance and transparency; Prison communities and culture; Food, health, and radical medicine; Revolutionary childhoods. With an easy-to-navigate, three-part structure, illustrations and primary source excerpts, 'Life in Revolutionary France' is the essential text for approaching the experiences of those who lived through one of the most turbulent times in world history"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.