The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (A Very Short Introduction)

William Doyle

Oxford University Press

2001

152 páginas

5h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780192853967

Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, Doyle leads the reader to the realization that we are still living with developments of the French Revolution. It destroyed the age-old cultural, institutional and social structures in France and beyond. This book looks at how the ancien regime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition, and explores its legacy in the form of rationality in public affairs and responsible government, and completes the discussion by examining why the revolution has been so controversial.