
Rewriting the French Revolution
The Andrew Browning Lectures 1989
Colin Lucas(Editor)
Clarendon Press
Published on 11. July 1991
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-0-19-821976-7 (ISBN)
Description
The French Revolution continues to generate historical controversy. During the last thirty years, consensus on its meaning has disappeared. Scholarship and debate constantly reinterpret both the event as a whole and its constituent parts, changing our perceptions and understanding of it. Today the French Revolution is still being rewritten as history.
In this volume, eight of the most distinguished scholars in the field present new interpretations of major themes in the history of the French Revolution. They explore areas of intellectual, political, religious, and social development. Two hundred years after the event, this is a major statement of current thinking on the Revolution. Its scholarly analyses will stimulate all historians of the French Revolution.
In this volume, eight of the most distinguished scholars in the field present new interpretations of major themes in the history of the French Revolution. They explore areas of intellectual, political, religious, and social development. Two hundred years after the event, this is a major statement of current thinking on the Revolution. Its scholarly analyses will stimulate all historians of the French Revolution.
Reviews / Votes
one of the better publications of the bicentennial boom ... a good guide to most responsible scholarly opinion'Times Literary Supplement 'a collection of useful and interesting articles'
Myron Kofman, Bolton Institute of Higher Education, Modern & Contemporary France, Jan '92 `The contributors are representative a cross-section of academic and political currents as they are distinguished as individuals... The attentive reader will probably be attracted - if hardly startled - not only by the juxtaposition of historical views, but also by the physical proximity of different methodological predilictions represented here. as someone who teaches the French Revolution at a specialist level, but whose research interests touch only its fringes, the present reviewer confesses himself a `perfect target'. With thanks to OUP and Colin Lucus.' Michael Broers, History 'The volume under review comes from a highly regarded press that has published many important titles in this field, and it includes contributions by some very distinguished historians'
Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky, History of European Ideas 'these essays are addressed to the educated, but not specialized, reader ... They provide a broad survey of post-materialist theories on the French Revolution'
Ruth F. Necheles, Long Island University, History 'These essays serve the field well by digesting a superabundance of recent research and pointing it toward some new conclusions.'
Thomas M. Adams, The Historian, Spring 1993, Vol. 55 'Pride of place ... must go to Colin Jones, whose contribution quite literally dominates the symposium. Some fifty pages bristle with provocative comments and suggestions, while extensive footnotes offer an excellent, up-to-date guide to the literature on French society at the end of the eighteenth century.'
Malcolm Crook, Keele University, British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, Spring 1993 eight excellent essays ... Lucas's brief anthology should repay careful examination * Palmer Talbutt, Comparative Civilizations Review *
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-821976-7 (9780198219767)
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Content
Robert Darnton: The forbidden books of pre-revolutionary France; Francois Furet: The French revolution or pure democracy; Norman Hampson: The heavenly city of the French revolutionaries; Colin Jones: Bourgeois revolution revivified: 1789 and social change; Louis Bergeron: The revolution: catastrophe or new dawn for the French economy?; Michel Vovelle: The adventures of reason, or from reason to the supreme being; Alan Forrest: Regionalism and counter-revolution in France; T.C.W. Blanning: The French revolution and Europe