This is a comprehensive and scholarly history of the French Revolution, including analyses of the the impact of events both in France and in the rest of Europe.
William Doyle is Professor of History and Chairman of the School of History, University of Bristol
Contents:
Preface
1 France under Louis XVI
2 Enlightened Opinion
3 Crisis and Collapse, 1776-1788
4 The Estates-General, September 1788-July 1789
5 The Principles of 1789 and the Reform of France
6 The Breakdown of Revolutionary Consensus, 1790-1791
7 Europe and the Revolution, 1788-1791
8 The Republican Revolution, October 1791-January 1793
9 War Against Europe, 1792-1797
10 The Revolt of the Provinces
11 Government by Terror, 1793-1794
12 Thermidor, 1794-1795
13 Counter-Revolution, 1789-1795
14 The Directory, 1795-1799
15 Occupied Europe, 1794-1799
16 An End to Revolution, 1799-1802
17 The Revolution in Perspective
Notes
Appendix I: Chronology of the French Revolution
Appendix II: The Revolutionary Calendar
Bibliography: The Revolution and its Historians
Index
The Oxford History of the French Revolution, Second Edition
Author(s) : DOYLE William
- Year of publication :
- 2002
- Place and publisher :
- Oxford: OUP
- Number of pages :
- 496