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Volney and the French Revolution
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2018This article examines Volney right before and after 1789. Placed together in their intellectual historical context, his works in this period - Travels in Syria and Egypt (1787), Considerations (1788), and The Ruins (1791) - offer a valuable guide into the workings of the "Enlightenment narrative" of "European" and "Oriental" history at the critical ...
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2022
Presented at the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria History Conference, 24 February 2017, Melbourne.
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Presented at the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria History Conference, 24 February 2017, Melbourne.
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The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
2001Abstract There are many familiar images of the French Revolution garnered from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of ‘let them eat cake’ and tricolours. The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction chronicles the unfolding events of the French Revolution, from the quarrels of the first revolutionaries with ...
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2004
The French Revolution has often been perceived as the dawn of the modern era, the divide between the ancien régime and the contemporary world. It is an undeniably crucial event in the history of Western Civilization. Yet it is also a confusing and oft-misunderstood event.
Linda S. Frey, Marsha L. Frey
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The French Revolution has often been perceived as the dawn of the modern era, the divide between the ancien régime and the contemporary world. It is an undeniably crucial event in the history of Western Civilization. Yet it is also a confusing and oft-misunderstood event.
Linda S. Frey, Marsha L. Frey
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2023
Besides its being one of the most important events that shaped the world's political history, the French Revolution changed the lives of the people of Europe and of other countries, especially the French people, due to its socio-cultural and socio-economic infrastructure.
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Besides its being one of the most important events that shaped the world's political history, the French Revolution changed the lives of the people of Europe and of other countries, especially the French people, due to its socio-cultural and socio-economic infrastructure.
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2020
Now in its second edition, The French Revolution: Faith, Desire, and Politics has been updated to include a discussion about how the actions by soldiers and citizen-soldiers shaped the course of the Revolution, as well as the daily lives and concerns of everyday French people.
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Now in its second edition, The French Revolution: Faith, Desire, and Politics has been updated to include a discussion about how the actions by soldiers and citizen-soldiers shaped the course of the Revolution, as well as the daily lives and concerns of everyday French people.
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Uncover the truth among the myths, fictions, and lore of the French Revolution. Did Marie Antoinette really say the famed words, “Let them eat cake?” Were throngs of prisoners released during the storming of the Bastille? This book answers these questions and more, sorting through common misconceptions of the French Revolution and in doing so
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Festivals and the French Revolution
The American Historical Review, 1988Edward Gross, Mona Ozouf, Alan Sheridan
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