Collating key texts at the forefront of new research and interpretation, this updated second edition adds new articles on the Terror and race/colonial issues, and studies all aspects of this major event, from its origins through to its ...
The Jacobin club was becoming Robespierre's echo chamber. The sections were no longer the force they had been, since Danton had changed their meetings to twice-weekly. Other deputies feared for their own lives, and were not eager to ...
From the storming of the Bastille to the executions of Louis XVI and Robespierre, this volume vividly documents the dramatic events and key historical figures which shaped the course of this most volatile period of France's history.
Its importance and fascination for us are undiminished as we try to understand revolutions in our own times. There are three key questions the book investigates. First, why was there a revolution in 1789?
The French Revolution: The fall of the Bastille
[TofC cont.] Directory and consulate (1795-1803): Orchestrating politics from above; Dissenters and opponents; Cultural life; Napoleon closes the Revolution. This ... collection of primary sources illustrates the political, cultural, and...
The Coming of the French Revolution, R. R. Palmer , trans. ... The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France, Joan White , trans. ... Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Politics, 1787–1799.
New York Times bestselling historian Emma Moreau exposes and analyzes the events that turned ordinary French citizens into revolutionaries - from the attack on the Bastille to the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to the ...
... The Agrarian Revolution The Highland Clearances Parliamentary Elections and Reform Nelson's Navy Wellington's Army The Railway Revolution # A Border Woollen Town in the Industrial Revolution A Textile Community in the Industrial ...
The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire.
With a brief chronology of the Revolution and a guide to further reading, this book is an invaluable resource for students of the French Revolution, women and gender, and the history of Catholicism.
Tells of the causes, the history, and the legacy of the French Revolution from a two-hundred year perspective.
This is an ideal starting point for students and general readers interested in this fascinating historical period. Marsha and Linda Frey, noted French historians, place the French Revolution in historical and social context for the reader.
... light , of fishoil ; and has seen worlds wrecked , and says nothing . But to the eye of enlightened Patriotism , what a thundercloud was this ; suddenly shaping itself in the radiance of the halcyon weather ! Cloud of Erebus blackness ...
This is the story of the French Revolution told from a psychological and group dynamic perspective whose aim is to shed light on the workings of the revolutionary mind and the emotions at work in society that pave the way towards revolution ...
These are not restaurant dishes - this is the food that Michel and his family cook and eat at home. In his beautiful new book, Michel brings the great cuisine of his native land into the 21st century - truly a French food revolution!
This book is divided into two parts.
The French Revolution
Each book in this series presents a two-part investigation of a major event or significant era in world history.
Reproduction of the original: The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle