| A Concise History of the French Revolution Contributor(s): Neely, Sylvia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742534111 ISBN-13: 9780742534117 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $48.51 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: This concise yet rich introduction to the French Revolution explores the origins, development, and eventual decline of a movement that defines France to this day. Through an accessible chronological narrative, Sylvia Neely explains the complex events, conflicting groups, and rapid changes that characterized this critical period in French history. She traces the fundamental transformations in government and society that forced the French to come up with new ways of thinking about their place in the world, ultimately leading to liberalism, conservatism, terrorism, and modern nationalism. Written with clarity and nuance, this work will be an engaging and rewarding exploration for all readers interested in France and revolutionary history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France - History | Revolutionary - History | Western Europe - General |
| Dewey: 944.04 |
| LCCN: 2007029526 |
| Series: Critical Issues in World and International History |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.93" W x 8.95" (0.89 lbs) 306 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This concise yet rich introduction to the French Revolution explores the origins, development, and eventual decline of a movement that defines France to this day. Through an accessible chronological narrative, Sylvia Neely explains the complex events, conflicting groups, and rapid changes that characterized this critical period in French history. She traces the fundamental transformations in government and society that forced the French to come up with new ways of thinking about their place in the world, ultimately leading to liberalism, conservatism, terrorism, and modern nationalism. Throughout, the author focuses on the essential political events that propelled the Revolution, at the same time deftly interweaving the intellectual, social, diplomatic, military, and cultural history of the time. Neely explains how the difficult choices made by the royal government and the revolutionaries alike not only brought on the collapse of the Old Regime but moved the nation into increasingly radical policies, to the Terror, and finally to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Written with clarity and nuance, this work offers a deeply knowledgeable understanding of the political possibilities available at any given moment in the course of the Revolution, placing them in a broad social context. All readers interested in France and revolutionary history will find this an engaging and rewarding read. |