Living the French Revolution, 1789-1799
Living the French Revolution, 1789-1799

Author: P. McPhee

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-10-10

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 023022881X

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What did it mean to live through the French Revolution? This volume provides a coherent and expansive portrait of revolutionary life by exploring the lived experience of the people of France's villages and country towns, revealing how The Revolution had a dramatic impact on daily life from family relations to religious practices.

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.

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.

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.

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.