Liberty or death the French Revolution
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and sent shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France and Eu...
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New Haven, CT
Yale University Press
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Patchworks of power and privilege: France in the 1780s
- A world of intellectual ferment
- Mismanaging crisis, 1785-88
- The people's revolution, 1789
- Regenerating the nation, 1789-90
- The revolution triumphant, 1790
- Fracturing Christ's family: religious schism and the king's flight, 1790-91
- Fear and fury, 1791-92, and a second revolution
- Republicans at the crossroads, 1792-93
- Liberty or death: choosing sides in violent times, 1793
- "Terror until the peace", July-October 1793
- Saving a republic of virtue, October 1793-April 1794
- Terror, victory and collapse, April-July 1794
- Settling scores: the Thermidorian reaction, 1794-95
- Men with a stake in society, 1795-97
- The great nation and its enemies, 1797-99
- The significance of the French Revolution