Entries detail developments in international affairs, the effects of contact with major powers on the rest of the world, and political and economic impacts, and offer the author's perspective on international issues.

Product Description: This book examines how France's revolutionary authorities handled political opposition in the year following the fall of the Bastille. Though demands for more severe treatment of the enemies of the new regime were frequently and loudly expressed, and though portents and warning signs of the coming unwillingness to tolerate opposition were hardly lacking, political justice in 1789-90 was in fact characterized by a remarkable degree of indulgence and forbearance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)