Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521385787)

In this volume, Keith Baker, arguably the leading expert writing in English on the ideological origins of the French Revolution, collects together a range of his essays on this subject published in journals in recent years. The essays include historiographical studies of the treatment of the topic by French and other historians as well as important case studies on the political vocabularies characteristic of the ancien r gime and the revolutionary periods. The result is a substantial and unified set of studies on one of the central themes in modern European history.

Author: Keith Michael Baker
ISBN-10: 0521385784
ISBN-13: 9780521385787
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/26/1990
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.01w x 1.09d