Suzanne Desan is Vilas-Shinners Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France, also from Cornell, and The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. Lynn Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several books, including Measuring Time, Making History and Inventing Human Rights. William Max Nelson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto and the author of a book manuscript and essays that focus on eighteenth-century intellectual history in France and the Atlantic world.

Introduction
by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max NelsonPart I. Origins1. The Global Underground: Smuggling, Rebellion, and the Origins of the French Revolution
by Michael Kwass2. The Global Financial Origins of 1789
by Lynn Hunt3. The Fall from Eden: The Free-Trade Origins of the French Revolution
by Charles Walton4. 1685 and the French Revolution
by Andrew JainchillPart II. "Internal" Dynamics5. Colonizing France: Revolutionary Regeneration and the First French Empire
by William Max Nelson6 Foreigners, Cosmopolitanism, and French Revolutionary Universalism
by Suzanne Desan7. Feminism and Abolitionism: Transatlantic Trajectories
by Denise Z. DavidsonPart III. Consequences8. Egypt in the French Revolution
by Ian Coller9. Abolition and Reenslavement in the Caribbean: The Revolution in French Guiana
by Miranda Spieler10 The French Revolutionary Wars and the Making of American Empire, 1783-1796
by Rafe BlaufarbCoda11. Every Revolution Is a War of Independence
by Pierre Serna, translated by Alexis PernsteinerNotes

List of Contributors

Index