The French Revolution in Global Perspective

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By Suzanne Desan ’79

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Cornell University Press) Placing both the origins and impacts of the French Revolution in their global context, the contributors to this book provide the long historical context for the French Revolution. The authors go on to explain how new forms of politics grew out of the events.   Suzanne Desan is Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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