This controversial study takes the provocative line that the French monarchy was a complete success. James turns the ide
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With the same sense of historical responsibility and veracity he has exemplified in his studies on Voltaire, Ira O. Wade
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Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupatio
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A major synthesis of current research on the three wars fought by France during the Revolution - against Austria and Pru
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Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers
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First published in 1980, this book rapidly established itself as the indispensable guide for those seeking to learn what
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After several decades of apparent consensus in the 1960s, the origins of the French Revolution became an area for disagr
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The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant pr
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Political economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revolutionary im
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Although the French Revolution is associated with efforts to dechristianize the French state and citizens, it actually h
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