The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575240920 ISBN 13: 9781575240923

Publisher: Krieger Pub Co, 2002

Synopsis

This anthology is organized around conflicting interpretations of eleven of the most important issues and events of the French Revolution. The editors have included interpretations by noted contemporary and earlier historians, and no one view or school of revolutionary studies is stressed. For the fifth edition, the chronological summary, the biographical profiles of historians, and the introduction to the problems have been extensively revised, and the book has been enlarged by the addition of chapters on women during the Revolution and on the Revolutionary legacy. Selections by T. C. W. Blanning, William Doyle, François Furet, Olwen H. Hufton, Gary Kates, Darline Gay Levy with Hariet Branson Applewhite, Laura Mason, Timothy N. Tackett, and David Gordon Wright have been added as well as the text in French and an English translation of the "Marseillaise."

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About the Author:

Frank A. Kafker is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cincinnati. He received the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has written The Encyclopedists as a Group: A Collective Biography of the Authors of the Encyclopedie and, in collaboration with Serena Kafker, The Encyclopedists as Individuals: A Biographical Dictionary of the Encyclopedie. Also he has edited Notable Encyclopedias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Nine Predecessors of the Encyclopedie and Notable Encyclopedias of the Late Eighteenth Century: Eleven Successors of the Encyclopedie. He has also contributed articles to many journals. With James M. Laux, he edited Napoleon and His Times: Selected Interpretations and the journal French Historical Studies from 1985 to 1992. James M. Laux is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cincinnati. He holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is the translator of The Right Wing in France, by R. Remond, and the author of In First Gear: The French Automobile Industry to 1914 and The European Automobile Industry He is coauthor and translator of The Automobile Revolution, and he has published articles in numerous journals. Darline Gay Levy is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She received a B.A. from Barnard College and the Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is the author of The Ideas and Careers of Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet: A Study in Eighteenth-Century French Politics, the coeditor of Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 and Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution, and has published many articles. She is currently completing several projects that expand and synthesize her earlier research on Revolutionary women.

About this edition

• Publisher: Krieger Pub Co
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1575240920
• ISBN 13: 9781575240923
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 471
• Editor: Kafker Frank A., Laux James M., Levy Darline Gay