Professor Jennifer Ngaire Heuer’s new book, Life in Revolutionary France, co-edited with Mette Harder, examines how the momentous political, social, and cultural changes of the French Revolution affected everyday life in both urban and rural France and the Atlantic World.
The book brings together an international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars. Fourteen chapters offer fresh perspectives on topics including political identities and activism; gender, race, and sexuality; transatlantic responses to war and revolution; workplace surveillance and transparency; prison communities and culture; food, health, and radical medicine; and revolutionary childhoods.
With a vibrant cast of characters and primary source excerpts (many translated into English for the first time), Life in Revolutionary France is an essential text for approaching the experiences of those who lived through one of the most turbulent times in world history.
Life in Revolutionary France is now available for purchase on the Bloomsbury website (try the discount code GLR TW5 for 35% off) or at many other bookstores.