The French Revolution Sourcebook

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This collection of original documents examines the constitutional and political problems of France between 1785-1795. Focusing on the period from the last years of the ancien regime to the fall of Robespierre and the Thermidorian Reaction, it traces the unsuccessful search for a political consensus and the struggle to defend the Rule of Law, and examines two central characters to the Revolution, Louis XVI and Robespierre. This edition has been updated and revised, new material includes a focus on the doubts and threats that assailed the ancien regime in its final years and an examination of the bloody climax of the Revolution.

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The most accessible collection of translated French revolutionary documents is now available in a revised and expanded edition. With its informed and up-to-date commentary, it will be indispensable for all courses seeking to study this complex subject in depth. Professor William Doyle, University of Bristol, UK Hardman's provides pithy documents, seeking to offer insights into how the politicians actually worked in the circumstances and, to a lesser extent,how people responded to them. The result is a lively, readable and accessible collection. Professor Rapport, Modern and Contemporary France John Hardman's The French Revolution Sourcebook is the most thorough collection of sources on the Revolutionary period up to the end of the Terror. there is no better collection available for analysing and understanding the interplay of events, the theoretical debates, the political backstabbing, and the give-and-take that were behind the edicts of 1788, the calling of the Estates-General, the radicalisation of the National Assembly, and Robespierre's downfall. H-Net Reviews

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John Hardman is a Professor at Edinburgh University.