Peter McPhee (, Professor of History, University of Melbourne)

The French Revolution, 1789-1799

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Produktbeschreibung

In this general introduction to the history of the French Revolution, the author provides a guide to the vast historiography of the French Revolution and tackles the main questions that have preoccupied historians of revolutionary France in the decade after 1789.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780199244140
• ISBN-10: 0199244146
• Artikelnr.: 21782592

Autorenporträt

Peter McPhee was educated at the Universtity of Melbourne. He taught at La Trobe University (Melbourne) and the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) before returning to the University of Melbourne, where he has held a Personal Chair in History since 1993. He has published widely on the history of modern France, notably, 'A Social History of France 1780-1880' (London, 1992) and Revolution and Environment in Southern France, 1780-1830' (Oxford, 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

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