French Revolution books

Published in the 1820s, and translated into English in 1838, Thiers' work remains a significant account of the French...  Read More >>

Blending narrative with analysis, this book explores a time of obscene opulence, mass starvation, and ground-breaking...  Read More >>

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How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or “radiance,” which also means “radiation” in French)...  Read More >>

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A Tale of Two Cities has always been one of Dickens's most popular texts. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches,...  Read More >>

As witnesses to History's ups and downs, flags - and in particular infantry flags - reveal how short-lived ideas...  Read More >>

Describes how the French revolutionaries tried to abolish the nobility, analysing the intellectual roots of hostility...  Read More >>

As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor, one of the few lone voices of conservative government...  Read More >>

In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called...  Read More >>

In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the problem of freedom of expression...  Read More >>

Few events in history have generated as much scholarly work as the French Revolution. Contesting the French Revolution...  Read More >>

Few events in history have generated as much scholarly work as the French Revolution. Contesting the French Revolution...  Read More >>

"Some say the French Revolution was a catastrophe waiting to happen. This book looks at the signals of its arrival,...  Read More >>

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Investigates the regicide's pivotal role in French intellectual history and political mythology. This book examines...  Read More >>

This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which...  Read More >>

This study of the French Revolution reveals that from March 1792 to April 1793, French foreign policy was dominated...  Read More >>

Few individuals have left as deep an influence on their time as did Germaine de Stael, one of the greatest intellectuals...  Read More >>

Three decades ago, Francois Furet famously announced that the French Revolution was over. Napoleon's armies ceased...  Read More >>

Examines contemporary debates about Ciceronian, Cynic, and Cartesian moral philosophy, as well as subjects ranging...  Read More >>

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A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon....  Read More >>