Brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of the French Revolution, particularly its legacies in transnational and global contexts.
An exploration of current scholarly thinking about the wide and surprisingly complex range of historical problems associated with the study of Ancien Régime Europe
Burke's intemperate diatribe, reformers felt, must be answered, and several cogent responses appeared in the early months of 1791. All were outshone, however, by Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, which was published in February and at once ...
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An account of the French Revolution.
First published in 1980, this book rapidly established itself as the indispensable guide to what brought about the French Revolution, and to the debates of historians about the issue.
In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues that it was the peasantry of France who made and defended the Revolution of 1789.
This book looks at how the ancien regime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition, and explores its legacy in the form of rationality in public affairs and responsible government, and completes ...
Together and separately, these essays demonstrate that the American Revolution remains a vibrant and inviting a subject of inquiry. Nothing comparable has been published in decades.
This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England.
The French Revolution of 1789 represents a crucial moment in the birth of the modern world. This text examines Revolutionary France as a whole, exploring issues of politics and society, culture, and economics.