The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of extreme political and social unrest saw the end of the French monarchy, the death of an extraordinary number of people beneath the guillotine's blade during the Terror, and the rise of Napoleon, as well as far reaching consequences still with us today, such as theenduring ideology of human rights, and decimalization.In this Very Short Introduction, William Doyle introduces the French old regime and considers how and why it collapsed. Retelling the unf…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-257634-7
- EAN: 9780192576347
- Produktnummer: 33168489
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'442 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 11 black and white images
Über den Autor
William Doyle is Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. His recent books include Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution (2009), Napoleon Bonaparte (2015), and France and the Age of Revolution: Regimes Old and New from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte (2017). He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime (2011).
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