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Hace 3 días · French Revolution. The French Revolution [a] was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, [1] while its values ...
- 5 May 1789 – 9 November 1799, (10 years, 6 months, and 4 days)
Hace 5 días · 1780s. 1780: Hyder Ali of Mysore develops the first metal-cylinder rockets. 1783: Claude de Jouffroy builds the first steamboat. 1783: Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier build the first manned hot air balloon. 1783: Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invents and uses the first modern parachute.
Hace 4 días · French Community. The French colonial empire ( French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the " First French colonial empire ", that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had ...
- French franc and various other currencies
- Colonial empire
Hace 5 días · The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN: 9780199639748; 704pp.; Price: £95.00. The historiography of the French Revolution is a diverse and ever expanding field. It is an eminently useful idea to produce a guide to it, though not one Oxford University Press is alone in having.
Hace 5 días · Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN: 521823943X; 359pp.; Price: £45.00. ‘It is time to effect a revolution in female manners’ declared the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 ‘– time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human ...
Hace 5 días · Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: the British in Bengal. Robert Travers. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-5218-6145-8; 292pp.; Price: £50.00. Reviewer: Dr Jon Wilson. Kings College London. Citation:
Hace 5 días · I think what you have to do is see the problem of the 1780s as two sets of problems. One, a national crisis, a crisis of the confederation. . . . The other: a problem within the states. If you separate these two, I think you can analytically see the situation. They come together. There are really two reform movements in the 1780s.
