Previous ed.: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Part 1: The Overthrow of the Marxist Paradigm. The French Revolution in the History of the Contemporary World. Nobles, Bourgeois, and the Origins of the French Revolution Part 2: The Revisionist Orthodoxy. The French Revolution Revisited. Constitution Part 3: Responses to Revisionism. Bourgeois Revolution Revivified: 1789 and Social Change. Luxury, Morality, and Social Change: Why There was No Middle-Class Consciousness in Pre-Revolutionary France. Nobles and Third Estate in the Revolutionary Dynamic of the National Assembly, 1789-90. Violence, Emanciaption, and Democracy: The Countryside and the French Revolution Part 4: Gender and Colonial Studies. The Many Bodies of Marie Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution. War Between Brothers and Sisters: Inheritance Law and Gender Politics in Revolutionary France. The Price of Liberty: Victor Hugues and the Administration of Freedom in Guadeloupe, 1794-1798