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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 404
Pages: 404
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 348
Pages: 348
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
This book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Livesey argues that t
Language: en
Pages: 152
Pages: 152
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-08-23 - Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in w
Language: en
Pages: 476
Pages: 476
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-23 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in