Description
The French Revolution continues to generate historical controversy. During the last thirty years, consensus on its meaning has disappeared. Scholarship and debate constantly reinterpret both the event as a whole and its constituent parts, changing our perceptions and understanding of it. Today the French Revolution is still being rewritten as history. In this volume, eight of the most distinguished scholars in the field present new interpretations of major themes in the history of the French Revolution. They explore areas of intellectual, political, religious, and social development. Two hundred years after the event, this is a major statement of current thinking on the Revolution. Its scholarly analyses will stimulate all historians of the French Revolution.
Reviews
one of the better publications of the bicentennial boom ... a good guide to most responsible scholarly opinion' Times Literary Supplement
'a collection of useful and interesting articles' Myron Kofman, Bolton Institute of Higher Education, Modern & Contemporary France, Jan '92
`The contributors are representative a cross-section of academic and political currents as they are distinguished as individuals... The attentive reader will probably be attracted - if hardly startled - not only by the juxtaposition of historical views, but also by the physical proximity of different methodological predilictions represented here. as someone who teaches the French Revolution at a specialist level, but whose research interests touch only its fringes, the present reviewer confesses himself a `perfect target'. With thanks to OUP and Colin Lucus.' Michael Broers, History
'The volume under review comes from a highly regarded press that has published many important titles in this field, and it includes contributions by some very distinguished historians' Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky, History of European Ideas
'these essays are addressed to the educated, but not specialized, reader ... They provide a broad survey of post-materialist theories on the French Revolution' Ruth F. Necheles, Long Island University, History
'These essays serve the field well by digesting a superabundance of recent research and pointing it toward some new conclusions.' Thomas M. Adams, The Historian, Spring 1993, Vol. 55
'Pride of place ... must go to Colin Jones, whose contribution quite literally dominates the symposium. Some fifty pages bristle with provocative comments and suggestions, while extensive footnotes offer an excellent, up-to-date guide to the literature on French society at the end of the eighteenth century.' Malcolm Crook, Keele University, British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, Spring 1993
eight excellent essays ... Lucas's brief anthology should repay careful examination * Palmer Talbutt, Comparative Civilizations Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198219767
Author Colin Lucas
Format Hardback
Page Count 220
Imprint Clarendon Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 225mm * 148mm * 19mm
Reviews
one of the better publications of the bicentennial boom ... a good guide to most responsible scholarly opinion' Times Literary Supplement
'a collection of useful and interesting articles' Myron Kofman, Bolton Institute of Higher Education, Modern & Contemporary France, Jan '92
`The contributors are representative a cross-section of academic and political currents as they are distinguished as individuals... The attentive reader will probably be attracted - if hardly startled - not only by the juxtaposition of historical views, but also by the physical proximity of different methodological predilictions represented here. as someone who teaches the French Revolution at a specialist level, but whose research interests touch only its fringes, the present reviewer confesses himself a `perfect target'. With thanks to OUP and Colin Lucus.' Michael Broers, History
'The volume under review comes from a highly regarded press that has published many important titles in this field, and it includes contributions by some very distinguished historians' Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky, History of European Ideas
'these essays are addressed to the educated, but not specialized, reader ... They provide a broad survey of post-materialist theories on the French Revolution' Ruth F. Necheles, Long Island University, History
'These essays serve the field well by digesting a superabundance of recent research and pointing it toward some new conclusions.' Thomas M. Adams, The Historian, Spring 1993, Vol. 55
'Pride of place ... must go to Colin Jones, whose contribution quite literally dominates the symposium. Some fifty pages bristle with provocative comments and suggestions, while extensive footnotes offer an excellent, up-to-date guide to the literature on French society at the end of the eighteenth century.' Malcolm Crook, Keele University, British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, Spring 1993
eight excellent essays ... Lucas's brief anthology should repay careful examination * Palmer Talbutt, Comparative Civilizations Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198219767
Author Colin Lucas
Format Hardback
Page Count 220
Imprint Clarendon Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 225mm * 148mm * 19mm
