The Origins of the French Revolution The Origins of the French Revolution. Edited by P eter C ampbell . (Problems in Focus). Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. viii + 371 pp. Hb £55.00. Pb £18.99.
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Liverpool University Press in French Studies
- Vol. 61 (1) , 103
- https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knl187
Abstract
It is now over half a century since Alfred Cobban and George V. Taylor ignited a great historical controversy over the nature of the French Revolution. Most of their criticism of the then-prevailing orthodoxies stemmed from their perceptions of how the Revolution originated, and although, since then, some scholarly attention has swung back towards a nineteenth-century preoccupation with Terror, most of the work of revisionists building on Cobban's and Taylor's demolitions, and post-revisionists more preoccupied with cultural and linguistic contexts, has continued to concentrate on the problem of origins. The full range of still-open dossiers is displayed in the essays which Peter Campbell has brought together and introduced in this welcome and timely collection. Appropriately, his cast of contributors is international, combining names well-established in...Keywords
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