Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 1910
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802

The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802
Author: T. C. W. Blanning
Publisher: Hodder Education
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1996
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780340569115

"The military and political progress of the [French] revolutionary armies is narrated and analysed in this ... study, with special attention paid to the legacy of the old regime, the remarkable resilience displayed by the old regime powers, the reasons for the revolutionaries' success on land -- and the reasons for their failure at sea. The revolutionary wars brought France hegemony in Europe but at a terrible cost. Inside the country, the war brought the end of pluralism, the destruction of the monarchy, civil war and the terror, paving the way for military dictatorship and burdening the country with an enduring legacy of political instability. This interaction between events at the front and at home is discussed in full. Special attention is also paid to the devastation inflicted by the revolutionary armies as they rampaged across the continent, together with the nationalist resistance movements they provoked"--Page 4 of cover.

Living the French Revolution, 1789-1799

Living the French Revolution, 1789-1799
Author: P. McPhee
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2006-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 023022881X

What did it mean to live through the French Revolution? This volume provides a coherent and expansive portrait of revolutionary life by exploring the lived experience of the people of France's villages and country towns, revealing how The Revolution had a dramatic impact on daily life from family relations to religious practices.

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Author: William Doyle
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2001-08-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192853961

Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.

The French Revolution 1787-1799

The French Revolution 1787-1799
Author: Albert Soboul
Publisher:
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2023
Genre:
ISBN: 9781136032325

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Historicising the French Revolution

Historicising the French Revolution
Author: Carolina Armenteros
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Three decades ago, François Furet famously announced that the French Revolution was over. Napoleon's armies ceased to march around Europe long ago, and Louis XVIII even returned to occupy the throne of his guillotined brother. And yet the Revolutionâ (TM)s memory continues to hold sway over imaginations and cultures around the world. This sway is felt particularly strongly by those who are interested in history: for the French Revolution not only altered the course of history radically, but became the fountainhead of historicism and the origin of the historical mentality. The sixteen essays collected in this volume investigate the Revolutionâ (TM)s intellectual and material legacies. From popular culture to education and politics, from France and Ireland to Poland and Turkey, from 1789 to the present day, leading historians expose, alongside graduate students, the myriad ways in which the Revolution changed humanityâ (TM)s possible futures, its history, and the idea of history. They attest to how the Revolution has had a continuing global significance, and is still shaping the world today.