Renowned historian, essayist, and journalist David A. Bell has long made France and its history the subject of his scholarly gaze and the object of his enduring affection. Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present gathers together his writing, composed over a period of more than 25 years, into a single volume. As the title of this collection suggests, Bell views much of French history through the lens...
David A. Bell is the author of four previous books, including the prize-winning The First Total War. Bell has taught European history at Yale, Johns Hopkins (where he served as Dean of Faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences) and is now Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History at Princeton. He has received numerous fellowships, including a Guggenheim. He writes regularly for a number of journals...
"David Bell is among America's foremost observers of France, and among its finest essayists. Like a stroll down a Paris side street, these pieces reveal delights at every turn. But taken as a whole, they leave a powerful impression of the monuments of France in all their splendor, beauty, tragedy, pathos, and profundity."--Derek McMahon, Dartmouth College
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