A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799

A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799

Author: Albert Soboul

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780520028555

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A Marxist analysis of the causes and course of the French Revolution argues that it can be understood, on all levels, only in terms of class struggle.


A Short History of the French Revolution (Subscription)

A Short History of the French Revolution (Subscription)

Author: Jeremy D. Popkin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1315508923

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This book attempts to introduce students to the major events that make up the story of the French Revolution and to the different ways in which historians have interpreted them. It covers the relationship between France and the United States.


Revolutionary News

Revolutionary News

Author: Jeremy D. Popkin

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780822309970

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The newspaper press was an essential aspect of the political culture of the French Revolution. Revolutionary News highlights the most significant features of this press in clear and vivid language. It breaks new ground in examining not only the famous journalists but the obscure publishers and the anonymous readers of the Revolutionary newspapers. Popkin examines the way press reporting affected Revolutionary crises and the way in which radical journalists like Marat and the Pere Duchene used their papers to promote democracy.


French Society in Revolution, 1789-1799

French Society in Revolution, 1789-1799

Author: David Andress

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1999-06-12

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780719051913

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This study plots a narrative course through the French Revolution examining the elements behind the breakdown of the 18th-century monarchic state. It presents a picture of the tensions throughout the revolutionary decade.


The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

Author: William Doyle

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

Published: 2001-08-23

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0192853961

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Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.


Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author: Hugh Chisholm

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 1090

ISBN-13:

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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.


Robespierre

Robespierre

Author: John Hardman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1317874609

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Robespierre was one of the most powerful and the most feared leaders of the French Revolution. John Hardman describes the career of this ruthless political manipulator, and in the process explores the dynamics of the French revolutionary movement and the ferocious and self-destructive rivalries of its leadership.This original book gets behind the polished but chilly surface of the public persona to reveal how Robespierre came by his extraordinary power and how he used it.


The Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution

Author: Toussaint L'Ouverture

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1788736575

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Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality.