The Road to 1789 : From Reform to Revolution in France, Paperback / softback Book

The Road to 1789 : From Reform to Revolution in France Paperback / softback

Edited by Nora Temple

Part of the The Past in Perspective series

Paperback / softback

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The subject of the origins of the French Revolution is one of the most important and controversial themes in European history.

This fresh critical appraisal begins with a masterly exposition and assessment of recent scholarly debate on the subject, followed by a lucid analysis, supported by documentary evidence, of the multiple stresses which undermined the Old Regime.

The author concludes that a revolution was unavoidable because the Old Regime was incapable of reforming fundamental defects in its political structures, but it was the contingent circumstances of 1788-9 that made the Revolution unexpectedly radical.

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