David Bien, Rafe Blaufarb, Michael S. Christofferson, Darrin M. McMahon
The work of David Bien, one of America’s foremost historians of eighteenth-century France, transformed our understanding of the ancien régime and the origins of the French Revolution. The editors bring together for the first time his most important articles, other previously unpublished essays and an interview transcript. Bien’s empirically-grounded approach made him a central figure in the ‘revisionist’ debates on the origins of the French Revolution. His re-reading of the Calas affair as an anomaly in a growing trend of tolerance (rather than a sign of widespread bigotry among an...
The work of David Bien, one of America’s foremost historians of eighteenth-century France, transformed our understanding of the ancien régime and ...
