The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution Hardback
by Alfred Cobban
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Alfred Cobban's The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution is one of the acknowledged classics of post-war historiography.
This 'revisionist' analysis of the French Revolution caused a furore on first publication in 1964, challenging as it did established orthodoxies during the crucial period of the Cold War.
Cobban saw the French Revolution as central to the 'grand narrative of modern history', but provided a salutary corrective to many celebrated social explanations, determinist and otherwise, of its origins and development.
A generation later this concise but powerful intervention was reissued in this 1999 edition with an introduction by Gwynne Lewis, providing students with both a context for Cobban's own arguments, and assessing the course of Revolutionary studies in the wake of The Social Interpretation.
This book remains a handbook of revisionism for Anglo-Saxon scholars, and is essential reading for all students of French history at undergraduate level and above.
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- Pages:230 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/05/1999
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:230 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/05/1999
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- ISBN:9780521661515