The debate on the French Revolution

By: Peter J. Davies, Roger Richardson (Editor), Chantal Hamil

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Paperback | 31 December 2006

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This book deals with the various types of revolutionary history and the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with the French Revolution. By the time of the Bicentenary celebrations in 1989, the historiographical field had been opened up so much that it was impossible to speak with certainty about any kind of new 'orthodoxy' at all. The fact that the decade and a half following the Bicentenary offered up its own hotchpotch of theorising merely confirmed this.

The survey of writings presents a cross-section of historians of the Revolution from the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. From liberals to conservatives and from Marxists to revisionists, it focuses on those individuals who are generally perceived to be the 'major' or 'pre-eminent' figures within revolutionary historiography.

A 'history of the histories', this book will be an ideal starting point for those students seeking to better-understand the French Revolution and its history. -- .

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History Politics & Government Political Activism Revolutionary Groups & Movements Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Specific Events & Topics in History Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions French Revolution

General editor's foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: competing interpretations	p. 1
Immediate responses: for and against	p. 9
Nineteenth century
The liberal perspective	p. 35
Idealist and romantic views	p. 51
Tocqueville	p. 73
Third Republic historians	p. 90
Twentieth century
Marxist 'orthodoxy'	p. 111
'Soft revisionism'	p. 134
'Hard revisionism'	p. 151
Bicentenary re-evaluations	p. 169
Postscript	p. 192
Further reading	p. 199
Index	p. 201
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