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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      October 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511614941
      9780521811477
      9780521009997
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511614941
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 302 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.407kg, 304 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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    This book provides a synthesis of the most recent scholarly literature on the diplomatic, political, social, economic, and cultural history of eighteenth-century and revolutionary France. On the basis of that synthesis, and current theoretical writing on major modern revolutions, the book argues that the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the dramatic developments of the subsequent ten years, were attributable to the interacting pressures of international and domestic politics on those national leaders attempting to govern France and to modernize its institutions. The book furthermore contends that the Revolution of 1789–1799, reconceptualized in this fashion, needs to be placed in the larger contexts of 'early modern' and 'modern' French history and modern 'progressive' sociopolitical revolutions. In staking out these positions, the book offers a unique interpretation of the French Revolution, one that dissents from both the Marxian socioeconomic orthodoxy of earlier times and more recent 'political-cultural' analyses.

    Reviews

    ‘Stone has done historians a valuable service by producing a very readable text, summarising a broad range of work, and making what are undeniably important points about the internal-external dynamic of revolutionary politics.‘

    Source: Institute of Historical Research

    ‘Superb and innovative empirical research of this sort is a welcome counterpoint to the grander narratives which the French Revolution so understandably evokes.’

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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