The Oxford history of the French Revolution
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The Oxford history of the French Revolution
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [444]-448) and index
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Description
This history of the French Revolution of 1789 has been published to mark the bicentenary of its outbreak and draws on a generation of extensive research and scholarly debate to reappraise this greatest of all revolutions, and its impact upon France and Europe. Opening with the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, it traces the history of France through revolution, terror and counter-revolution, to the triumph of Napoleon in 1802. The author shows how a movement which began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy, not only for the ruling orders, but for the millions of ordinary people all over Europe whose lives were disrupted by religious upheaval and civil and international war.
Table of Contents
- France under Louis XVI
- enlightened opinion
- crisis and collapse, 1776-1788
- the Estates-General, September 1788-July 1789
- the principles of 1789 and the reform of France
- the breakdown of the revolutionary consensus, 1790-1791
- Europe and the Revolution, 1788-1791
- the Republican Revolution, October 1791-January 1793
- war against Europe, 1792-1797
- the revolt of the provinces
- government by terror, 1793-1794
- Thermidor, 1794-1795
- counter-revolution, 1789-1795
- the Directory, 1795-1799
- occupied Europe, 1794-1799
- an end to revolution, 1799-1802
- the revolution in perspective.
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