Rewriting the French Revolution: The Andrew Browning Lectures 1989

ISBN-13: 9780198219767 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 224 str.

Colin Lucas

Opis

Exploring the historical controversy over the meaning of the French Revolution, eight of the most distinguished scholars in the field--Francois Furet, Norman Hampson, Colin Jones, Louis Bergeron, Michel Vovelle, Alan Forrest, and T.C.W. Blanning-- present new interpretations of its major themes, focusing on the areas of intellectual, political, religious, and social development. Two hundred years after the event, this book is a major statement of current thinking on the Revolution which will stimulate all historians of the French Revolution.

Recenzje

eight excellent essays ... Lucas's brief anthology should repay careful examination

Spis treści

Robert Darnton: The forbidden books of pre-revolutionary France; François Furet: The French revolution or pure democracy; Norman Hampson: The heavenly city of the French revolutionaries; Colin Jones: Bourgeois revolution revivified: 1789 and social change; Louis Bergeron: The revolution: catastrophe or new dawn for the French economy?; Michel Vovelle: The adventures of reason, or from reason to the supreme being; Alan Forrest: Regionalism and counter-revolution in France; T.C.W. Blanning: The French revolution and Europe