This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates among historians.The book has two main aims. O
The French Revolution, 1789-1799
โ Scribed by McPhee, Peter
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press USA - OSO
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Introduction
1. France in the 1780s
2. The Crisis of the Old Regime
3. The Revolution of 1789
4. The Reconstruction of France, 1789-91
5. A Second Revolution, 1792
6. The Revolution in the Balance, 1793
7. The Terror: revolutionary Defence or Paranoia?
8. Ending the Revolution, 1795-9
9. The Significance of the Revolution
Maps
Appendix 1: Chronology
Appendix 2: The Revolutionary Calendar
A Guide to Further Reading
โฆ Subjects
History;France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799;France
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