The French and Their Revolution: Selected Writings - Hardcover

Cobb, Richard

 
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Synopsis

These writings on the French Revolution discuss aspects of the revolutionary mentality in France; popular movements, popular protest and repression; and counter-revolutionary tendencies. The book includes a list of revolutionary figures, factions and historians and a revolutionary calendar.

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He is such a marvellous historian because of his unique and very personal relationship with his subject -- Theodore Zeldin

He is the Goya of our craft -- Gwynn Williams

About the Author

Richard Cobb (1917–1996) was the author of many books, including The French and Their Revolution (The New Press), The People’s Armies, Something to Hold On To, and The End of the Line.

David Gilmour was one of Richard Cobb’s students at Oxford in the early 1970s and edited The French and Their Revolution (The New Press). His books include the prizewinning biographies Curzon and The Last Leopard: A Life of Guiseppe di Lampedusa.

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ISBN 10:  1565845404 ISBN 13:  9781565845404
Publisher: The New Press, 1999
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