Oxford History of the French Revolution

Name: Oxford History of the French Revolution
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ISBN: 9780199252985

ISBN-10: 019925298X

ISBN-13: 9780199252985

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: William Doyle

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This new edition of the most authoritative, comprehensive history of the French Revolution of 1789 draws on a generation of extensive research and scholarly debate to reappraise the most famous of all revolutions. Updates for this second edition include a generous chronology of events, plus an extended bibliographical essay providing an examination of the historiography of the Revolution. Opening with the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, the book traces the history of France through revolution, terror, and counter-revolution, to the triumph of Napoleon in 1802, and analyses the impact of events both in France itself and the rest of Europe. William Doyle shows how a movement which began with…

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List price: $26.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/28/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 1.24" tall
Weight: 0.836

William Doyle is a writer and documentary producer whose previous book, Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton, was a New York Times Notable Book. In 1998 he won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best TV Documentary for the A&E special "The Secret White House Tapes," which he cowrote and coproduced. He lives in New York City.



List of Maps



France under Louis XVI



Enlightened Opinion



Crisis and Collapse, 1776-1788



The Estates-General, September 1788-July 1789



The Principles of 1789 and the Reform of France



The Breakdown of the Revolutionary Consensus, 1790-1791



Europe and the Revolution, 1788-1791



The Republican Revolution, October 1791-January 1793



War against Europe, 1792-1797



The Revolt of the Provinces



Government by Terror, 1793-1794



Thermidor, 1794-1795



Counter-Revolution, 1789-1795



The Directory, 1795-1799



Occupied Europe, 1794-1799



An End to Revolution, 1799-1802



The Revolution in Perspective


Notes


Appendices



Chronology of the French Revolution



The Revolutionary Calendar



The Revolution and its Historians


Index