The French Revolution: 0 (Revolutions in the Modern World) - Softcover

Bosher, Jf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039395997X ISBN 13: 9780393959970

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989

Synopsis

Bosher situates the revolutionary struggle not in an atmosphere of sharp class alignment, but instead with socially mixed and transient groupings. He goes deeply into the pre-Revolutionary period, examining the stresses in the social and political order of the ancien regime, as well as the ideas of the wealthy that circulated in the salons and permeated the journals and leaflets read by the populace.

Central to the account is Professor Bosher's argument, novel and fully documented, that behind the tumult was a generation of revolutionaries whose revolution was not premeditated and a series of events that were anything but inevitable even once the powder keg was ignited.

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Synopsis

A reassessment of the French Revolution argues that the angry masses were in fact a socially mixed and transient group and that revolution was not an inevitable expression of French political and economic dissatisfactions.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039395997X
• ISBN 13: 9780393959970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416