The French Revolution and Napoleon: A Sourcebook - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415199077 ISBN 13: 9780415199070

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

The upheavals, terror, and drama of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period restructured politics and society on a grand scale, making this the defining moment for modern European history.

This volume collects together a wide selection of primary texts to explain the process behind the enormous changes undergone by France and Europe between 1787 and 1815, from the Terror to the Counter-Revolution and from Marie-Antoinette to Robespierre and Bonaparte. While bringing the impact of historical events to life, Philip Dwyer and Peter McPhee provide a clear outline of the period through key documents and lucid introductory passages and commentary. They illustrate the meaning of the Revolution for peasants, sans-culottes, women, and slaves, as well as placing events within a wider European context..

Students will find this an invaluable source of information on the Revolution as a whole as well as the international significance of the events.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Dwyer is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Newcastle in Australia. He is the editor of Napoleon and Empire (2001). Peter McPhee holds a Personal Chair in history at the University of Melbourne. He as published widely on the history of modern France including, A Social History of France, 1780-1880 (1992).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0415199077
• ISBN 13: 9780415199070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Dwyer Philip, McPhee Peter