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A companion to the French Revolution
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ISBN: 9781444335644 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chichester Wiley-Blackwell

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The French Revolution, 1789-1799
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ISBN: 1280446587 0191586420 1423785673 9781423785675 9780199244140 0199244146 9781280446580 0203456831 9780203456835 9780191586422 661044658X 9786610446582 0199244164 0191608254 1383038007 9780191608254 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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In this general introduction to the history of the French Revolution, the author provides a guide to the vast historiography of the French Revolution and tackles the main questions that have preoccupied historians.

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Liberty or death : the French Revolution
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ISBN: 9780300189933 9780300228694 9780300219500 0300219504 0300189931 0300189931 0300228694 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press,

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A strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France and Europe to create an entirely fresh account of the world's first great modern revolution-its origins, drama, complexity, and significance. Was the Revolution a major turning point in French-even world-history, or was it instead a protracted period of violent upheaval and warfare that wrecked millions of lives? McPhee evaluates the Revolution within a genuinely global context: Europe, the Atlantic region, and even farther. He acknowledges the key revolutionary events that unfolded in Paris, yet also uncovers the varying experiences of French citizens outside the gates of the city: the provincial men and women whose daily lives were altered-or not-by developments in the capital. Enhanced with evocative stories of those who struggled to cope in unpredictable times, McPhee's deeply researched book investigates the changing personal, social, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. His startling conclusions redefine and illuminate both the experience and the legacy of France's transformative age of revolution.


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Terreur et contre-révolution à Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans, 1793-1794
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Robespierre : a revolutionary life
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ISBN: 9780300118117 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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Robespierre : A Revolutionary Life
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ISBN: 1280062177 9786613519917 0300183674 9780300183672 9780300118117 0300118112 9781280062179 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793-94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings.Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.

A social history of France, 1789-1914
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ISBN: 0333997506 Year: 2004

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Living the french revolution
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ISBN: 0333997395 Year: 2006 Publisher: Houndmills ; New York Palgrave Macmillan

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The French Revolution and Napoleon : A Sourcebook
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Year: 2002 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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