Revolution and Political Conflict in the French Navy 1789-1794
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 9 May 2002
- ISBN 9780521893756
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 247x160x23 mm
- Weight 580 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 b/w illus. 9 maps 0
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Short description:
A 1995 study of the navy in the French Revolution, revealing its crucial role in the political conflict.
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Although historians of the French Revolution have paid it little attention, the French navy provides a striking illustration of the impact of the new ideology of Popular Sovereignty. This book examines the navy's involvement in political conflict from 1789 to 1794 and charts the evolution of a struggle between opposing definitions of authority in France. The fleet depended on the support of executive power. In 1789 royal government collapsed in the face of defiance from the National Assembly, but Popular Sovereignty was not confined to the legislature. The struggle between competing claims to represent the National Will lay behind the fleet's surrender at Toulon in 1793 and the mutiny at Quiberon Bay. Sent to Brest to save the Republic's navy, Jeanbon Saint-Andr&&&233; sought to restrict Popular Sovereignty in the context of the Terror. Thus this 1995 study presents a revisionist interpretation of the nature of revolutionary politics.
"...[an] excellent study...[an] extensively documented and thoroughly annotated work..." American Historical Review
Table of Contents:
1. The French navy, the revolution and the historians; 2. The French navy on the eve of revolution; 3. The revolution begins: the Toulon Affair of 1789; 4. Naval reorganisation and the mutiny at Brest, 1790-1; 5. Bertrand de Moleville and the dissolution of the officer corps, 1791-2; 6. Naval officers and the Jacobin Regime, 1792-3: the court martial of Captain Basterot; 7. The Great Treason: the surrender of the Mediterranean fleet in 1793; 8. Naval authority and the National Will: the Quiberon Mutiny of 1793; 9. A navy for the Republic: Jeanbon Saint-Andr&&&233;'s missions to Brest and the Prairial Campaign, 1793-4; 10. Conclusion: revolutionary politics and the French navy; Bibliography; Index.
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