Author

Publication

2009 - Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

62,000 words, Guess

Page Count

248 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivecontestingfrench0000hans
  • ISBN-139781405160841
  • ISBN-101405160837
  • ISBN-139781405160834
  • ISBN-101405160845
and 7 more
  • LibraryThing9650423
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008038601
  • OCLC Control Number230183095
  • Better World Books9781405160841
  • Better World Books9781405160834
  • Better World BooksO8-CBW-613
  • Open LibraryOL22514842M

Classifications

  • DDC944.04072
  • LCCDC147.8 .H34 2009
  • LCCDC147.8.H34 2009

Description

"This book presents an overview of what led up to this pivotal event, the turning points that shaped it, and its far-reaching effects, as well as examining the most significant historiographical debates about this period. Were the events of 1789 a social revolution or a political accident? Did they mark the rise of industrial capitalism or the birth of modern democracy? Was the Reign of Terror a response to foreign war and domestic resistance or the product of Jacobin ideology? Paul Hanson offers an engaging analysis of these debates, showing us how historical interpretation of the French Revolution has been influenced by the changing political and social currents of the last 200 years - from the Russian Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall."--Jacket.

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