French Revolution In Social And Political Perspective
By (Author) Peter Jones
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Hodder Arnold
1st April 2003
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
944.04
Paperback
512
Width 157mm, Height 233mm, Spine 25mm
738g
Every year no fewer than 2,000 items are published on the French Revolution. Anyone approaching the subject has immediately to confront the difficulty of choosing what to read. This is exacerbated by the shifting contours of the subject itself. Traditional political and diplomatic history has faded under the pressure from social and economic historians, but now they are challenged, in turn, by the rapid growth of intellectual, cultural and gendered history.
The purpose of this Reader is not to impose order where there is none but, rather, to capture the range of activities in which historians are engaged. Constructed according to a broadly social' and political' perspective, it tries to identify those books and articles that may come to be seen as key contributions to the subject. There are five thematic sections: Interpretations and Debates; Socio-Cultural Approaches; Gender in the Public Sphere; Revolutionary Politics; The Crowd, Terror and Counter-Terror.
'An indispensable resource for French Revolution courses, and is an excellent guide to the current state of play in interpreting the revolution' * History *
Peter Jones is Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham.