The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms-at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing-were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.

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