The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago b
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The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern
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Among the most enduring of French cultural institutions, the salon, is among the most misunderstood. Seen primarily as a
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Challenging many of the conclusions of recent historiography, including the depiction of salonnières as influential powe
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“The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789” is the French Revolution’s best known utterance. By 1789,
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The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by bo
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The Haitian Revolution (1789–1804) was an epochal event that galvanized slaves and terrii ed planters throughout the Atl
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In his rich and learned new book about the naturalization of foreigners, Peter Sahlins offers an unusual and unexpected
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Professor Herr's brief and attractively presented Tocqueville and the Old Regime is to be commended to all who are
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