A Companion to the French Revolution (Blackwell Companions to European History) - Softcover

McPhee, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118977521 ISBN 13: 9781118977521

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

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A Companion to the French Revolution comprises twenty-nine newly-written essays reassessing the origins, development, and impact of this great turning-point in modern history.

• Examines the origins, development and impact of the French Revolution
• Features original contributions from leading historians, including six essays translated from French.
• Presents a wide-ranging overview of current historical debates on the revolution and future directions in scholarship
• Gives equally thorough treatment to both causes and outcomes of the French Revolution

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Peter McPhee is Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. His publications include Living the French Revolution 1789-1799 (2006) and Robespierre: a Revolutionary Life (2012). A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of Social Sciences, McPhee was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2012 for service to education and the discipline of history.

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The French Revolution is one of the great turning-points in modern history. Never before had the people of a large and populous country sought to remake their society on the basis of the principles of popular sovereignty and civic equality. The drama, success, and tragedy of their project, and of the attempts to arrest or reverse it, have attracted scholarly debate for more than two centuries.

So why was there a Revolution in 1789? Why did it prove so difficult to stabilize the new regime? What factors caused the Revolution to take its particular course? And what were the consequences, domestic and abroad, of a decade of revolutionary change? Featuring contributions from an international cast of acclaimed historians, A Companion to the French Revolution addresses these and other critical questions as it points the way to future scholarship.

So why was there a Revolution in 1789? Why did it prove so difficult to stabilize the new regime? What factors caused the Revolution to take its particular course? And what were the consequences, domestic and abroad, of a decade of revolutionary change? Featuring contributions from an international cast of acclaimed historians, A Companion to the French Revolution addresses these and other critical questions as it points the way to future scholarship.

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• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1118977521
• ISBN 13: 9781118977521
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 568
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