The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization

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The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization is written by Matthias Middell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110620294 (ISBN 10) and 9783110620290 (ISBN 13).

The French Revolution has primarily been understood as a national event that also had a lasting impact in Europe and in the Atlantic world. Recently, historiography has increasingly emphasized how France’s overseas colonies also influenced the contours of the French Revolution. This volume examines the effects of both dimensions on the reorganization of spatial formats and spatial orders in France and in other societies. It departs from the assumption that revolutions shatter not only the political and economic old regime order at home but, in an increasingly interdependent world, also result in processes of respatialization. The French Revolution, therefore, is analysed as a key event in a global history that seeks to account for the shifting spatial organization of societies on a transregional scale.