프랑스혁명사의 “전지구적 전환”: 혁명사 연구의 새로운 방향에 대한 사학사적 고찰 (The French Revolution and the “Global Turn”: A Historiographic Survey of the New Global Perspectives in the Studies of the French Revolution)

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The French Revolution and the “Global Turn”: A Historiographic Survey of the New Global Perspectives in the Studies of the French Revolution Yun Kyoung Kwon Recently, we have observed a new “turn” in the historiography of the French Revolution, interconnected with the rise of global perspectives in general. In the studies of the French Revolution, the ‘global turn’ has challenged the traditional frameworks of analysis predicated on ‘French Hexagon’ or ‘European France.’ Born from the confluence of diverse fields and theories, the global turn demands redefining the French Revolution in terms of the global context which both created the Revolution and was changed by the revolutionary vortex: the emergence of the “primitive globalization,” imperial competition and the circulation of peoples, commodities and ideas in transnational networks. It not only illuminates the importance of hitherto unacknowledged colonial actors in the revolutionary dynamics but also re-situates the Revolution itself in the global-national-local nexus in which different levels of spatiality interacted with one another. This research is an endeavor to understand in historiographic terms this very recent attempt to renew the studies of the French Revolution, so as to appropriate it from our own ‘local’ perspectives. Can we call it simply “French” Revolution, when it was constituted by the global influences, both in its origin and the course of events? When we grasp the multidirectional networks of revolutionary chain reactions and the kaleidoscope of the revolutionary changes in a fuller range, how could it affect our understanding of the French Revolution as the presumed origin of our modernity? Will it amount to a true paradigm shift in the studies of the French Revolution, providing a new breakthrough for rebooting the field? Grappling with those fundamental questions, this article examines the complex genealogy of the global turn(second chapter), exemplifies the main academic achievements derived from the turn(third chapter), and finally addresses both possibilities and limits that those attempts have revealed(conclusion).








(Changwon National University / [e-mail])

Key words: French Revolution, historiography of the French Revolution, global turn, global history, Haitian Revolution, Atlantic History, colonialism, postcolonialism.

영어초록

The French Revolution and the “Global Turn”: A Historiographic Survey of the New Global Perspectives in the Studies of the French Revolution Yun Kyoung Kwon Recently, we have observed a new “turn” in the historiography of the French Revolution, interconnected with the rise of global perspectives in general. In the studies of the French Revolution, the ‘global turn’ has challenged the traditional frameworks of analysis predicated on ‘French Hexagon’ or ‘European France.’ Born from the confluence of diverse fields and theories, the global turn demands redefining the French Revolution in terms of the global context which both created the Revolution and was changed by the revolutionary vortex: the emergence of the “primitive globalization,” imperial competition and the circulation of peoples, commodities and ideas in transnational networks. It not only illuminates the importance of hitherto unacknowledged colonial actors in the revolutionary dynamics but also re-situates the Revolution itself in the global-national-local nexus in which different levels of spatiality interacted with one another. This research is an endeavor to understand in historiographic terms this very recent attempt to renew the studies of the French Revolution, so as to appropriate it from our own ‘local’ perspectives. Can we call it simply “French” Revolution, when it was constituted by the global influences, both in its origin and the course of events? When we grasp the multidirectional networks of revolutionary chain reactions and the kaleidoscope of the revolutionary changes in a fuller range, how could it affect our understanding of the French Revolution as the presumed origin of our modernity? Will it amount to a true paradigm shift in the studies of the French Revolution, providing a new breakthrough for rebooting the field? Grappling with those fundamental questions, this article examines the complex genealogy of the global turn(second chapter), exemplifies the main academic achievements derived from the turn(third chapter), and finally addresses both possibilities and limits that those attempts have revealed(conclusion).








(Changwon National University / [e-mail])

Key words: French Revolution, historiography of the French Revolution, global turn, global history, Haitian Revolution, Atlantic History, colonialism, postcolonialism.

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