The French Revolution has primarily been understood as a national event that also had a lasting
impact in Europe and in the Atlantic world. Recently historiography has increasingly
emphasized how France's overseas colonies also influenced the contours of the French
Revolution. This volume examines the effects of both dimensions on the reorganization of
spatial formats and spatial orders in France and in other societies. It departs from the
assumption that revolutions shatter not only the political and economic old regime order at
home but in an increasingly interdependent world also result in processes of
respatialization. The French Revolution therefore is analysed as a key event in a global
history that seeks to account for the shifting spatial organization of societies on a
transregional scale.
