French Revolution books

This text reasserts the Marxist view of the French Revolution as a bourgeois and capitalist revolution. Based mainly...  Read More >>

Riley-Smith's 1986 book gives convincing case for a 'revisionist' view of the crusades, challenging the common belief...  Read More >>

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Born in Britain in 1737, Thomas Paine had a humble, religious upbringing and very little formal education. The course...  Read More >>

Lefebvre, renowned as a pioneer of ‘history from below,’ believed that the origins of the revolution had to be sought...  Read More >>

First published in 1790, Burke’s Reflections rejects the ideas that had inspired radical political change in France...  Read More >>

Riley-Smith’s 1986 book gives convincing case for a `revisionist’ view of the crusades, challenging the common belief...  Read More >>

In The Age of Revolution, Eric Hobsbawm focuses on the tumultuous late 18th and early 19th centuries. He argues...  Read More >>

"In The Age of Revolution, Eric Hobsbawm focuses on the tumultuous late 18th and early 19th centuries. He argues...  Read More >>

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Born in Britain in 1737, Thomas Paine had a humble, religious upbringing and very little formal education. The course...  Read More >>

Examines the aristocratic experience in early modern France through a close examination of the history of the Rohan,...  Read More >>

A new, wide-ranging book from the acclaimed author of The Serpent's Promise and Darwin's Island  Read More >>

Examines the text and background of The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching, an autobiography by the fourteenth-century...  Read More >>

This innovative volume reconsiders the cultural, economic, political, and social realities facing global French...  Read More >>

The first ever systematic and authoritative compilation of Napoleon's thinking on war, this is as close as we will...  Read More >>

The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the...  Read More >>

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The story of how we learned to smile. A unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of modern...  Read More >>

Rebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant, has written a new history of money. It...  Read More >>

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Focusing on travel images and cross-cultural exchange, examines interactions between the Ottoman Empire and Europeans...  Read More >>

Democracy is perhaps the defining characteristic of modern Western society, but even as late as the nineteenth century...  Read More >>

Henrietta Lightfoot trips on her silk gown as she runs for her life along the bloodstained streets of revolutionary...  Read More >>

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in...  Read More >>