Library Guides: HS 224: Renaissance to Napoleon: Finding Books

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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee
Call Number: DC 148 .M4535 2016
ISBN: 9780300189933
Publication Date: 2016-05-24
In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France and Europe to create an entirely fresh account of the world's first great modern revolution--its origins, drama, complexity, and significance.
Revolutionary France, 1770-1880 by Francois Furet; Antonia Nevill (Translator)
Call Number: DC 148 .F8713 1992
ISBN: 0631170294
Publication Date: 1992-10-01
Revolutionary France is a vivid narrative history. It is also a radical reinterpretation of the period, and testimony to the power both of ideas and of personality in movements of the past.
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
Call Number: DC 148 .S43 1989
ISBN: 9780394221458
Publication Date: 1991-12-13
Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke; Frank M. Turner; Darrin M. McMahon
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 030013486X
Publication Date: 2003-12-01
The most enduring work of its time, Reflections on the Revolution in France was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke's analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This outstanding new edition of the Reflections presents Burke's famous text along with a historical introduction by Frank M. Turner and four lively critical essays by leading scholars.
Reform and Revolution in France by P. M. Jones
Call Number: DC 138 .J68 1995
ISBN: 0521453224
Publication Date: 1995-09-21
This textbook has been written to help teachers and students to pilot their way through the enormous and ever expanding literature on the French Revolution. The author makes a conscious effort to combine social and political interpretations of the origins of the Revolution and offers a synthesis which takes full account of current debates.
Reinterpreting the French Revolution by Bailey Stone
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 0511045166
Publication Date: 2002-10-21
Stone draws on the latest scholarship on diplomatic, political, social, economic, and cultural history of eighteenth-century and revolutionary France to attribute the outbreak of the French Revolution and later developments to pressures of international and domestic politics on those national leaders attempting to govern France and to modernize its institutions.
The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution by Roger Chartier; Keith M. Baker (Editor); Steven L. Kaplan (Editor); Lydia G. Cochrane (Translator)
Call Number: DC 138 .C48 1991
ISBN: 0822309939
Publication Date: 1991-04-30
The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution is a major work by one of the leading scholars in the field and is likely to set the intellectual agenda for future work on the subject.
From Deficit to Deluge by Thomas E. Kaiser (Editor); Dale K. Van Kley (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780804777193
Publication Date: 2010-12-01
From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the 1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial policy.
The Terror by David Andress
Call Number: DC 183.5 .A53 2006
ISBN: 0374273413
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an orgy of apparently pointless bloodletting has been the focus of countless reflections on the often malignant nature of humanity and the folly of revolution. David Andress, a leading historian of the French Revolution, presents a radically different account of the Terror. In a remarkably vivid and page-turning work of history, he transports the reader from the pitched battles on the streets of Paris to the royal family's escape through secret passageways in the Tuileries palace, and across the landscape of the tragic last years of the Revolution. The violence, he shows, was a result of dogmatic and fundamentalist thinking: dreadful decisions were made by groups of people who believed they were still fighting for freedom but whose survival was threatened by famine, external war, and counter-revolutionaries within the fledgling new state.

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