Title:
The Oxford history of the French Revolution / William Doyle.
Author:
Doyle, William, 1942-
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Call Number:
DC148 .D69 2002
Abstract:
This second edition of the most authoritative and comprehensive history of the French Revolution draws on a wealth of new research in order to reassess the greatest of all revolutions. It includes a generous chronology of events and an extended bibliographical essay providing an examination of the historiography of the Revolution. Beginning with the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, leading historian William Doyle traces the history of France through revolution, terror, and counter-terror, to the triumph of Napoleon in 1802, along the way analyzing the impact of these events in France upon the rest of Europe. He explores how a movement which began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy, not only for the ruling orders, but for millions of ordinary people all over Europe who paid the price for the destruction of the old political order and the struggle to establish a new one.
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Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780199252985
9786610905133
Physical Description:
viii, 481 pages : maps ; 20 cm
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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