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Introduction: theses and themes / Thomas E. Kaiser and Dale K. Van Kley -- Financial origins of the French Revolution / Gail Bossenga -- The social origins of the French Revolution revisited / Jack A. Goldstone -- The religious origins of the French Revolution, 1560-1791 / Dale K. Van Kley -- From fiscal crisis to revolution : the court and foreign policy, 1787-1789 / Thomas E. Kaiser -- Enlightenment idioms, Old Regime discourses, and revolutionary improvisation / Keith Michael Baker -- Gender in pre-revolutionary political culture / Jeffrey Merrick -- Saint-Domingue, slavery and the origins of the French Revolution / Jeremy D. Popkin -- Conclusion : from Old Regime to French Revolution / Thomas E. Kaiser and Dale K. Van Kley

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- A Law of Difference in the History of Difference. THE FIRST EDICT OF "TOLERANCE" -- Waging Peace. MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND THE EDICT OF NANTES -- Sharing Sacred Space. PROTESTANT TEMPLES AND RELIGIOUS COEXISTENCE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- Religion and Politics in France during the Period of the Edict of Nantes (1598–1685) -- Catholic Conciliar Reform in an Age of Anti-Catholic Revolution -- French Protestants, Laicization, and the Separation of the Churches and the State, 1802–1905 -- Totems, Taboos, and Jews. SALOMON REINACH AND THE POLITICS OF SCHOLARSHIP IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE FRANCE -- Catholic Culture in Interwar France -- The Right to Be Different. SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE "FRENCH EXCEPTION" -- Islam in a Secular Context. CATALYST OF THE "FRENCH EXCEPTION " -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors