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The Oxford History of the French Revolution

by William Doyle. 466 pgs.

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Contributors:

   William Doyle

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  Oxford  

Publication Year:

  1989
Subjects:   France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799, Europe--History--1789-1815
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1.
Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799 - Vol. 1
Book by Samuel F. Scott, Barry Rothaus; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Dictionaries
...index. 1. France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799-- Dictionaries. I. Scott...Bertaud, Sorbonne, Paris, France Richard Bienvenu, University...M. Daline, Institute of History, Moscow, U.S.S.R. Philip...Western Society for French History Pub. Opin. Q...jusquau Consultat, mai 1789-nov embre 1799, avec des notes explicatives...Revo. Revue de la Revolution Rev. des Deux-Mondes...
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Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799 - Vol. 2
Book by Samuel F. Scott, Barry Rothaus; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Dictionaries
...for French History Pub. Opin...Consultat, mai 1789-nov embre 1799, avec des notes...Revue de la Revolution Rev. des Deux-Mondes...litt. de la France Revue dhistoire...events between 1789 and 1799, he exemplified...advancement through the Revolutionary epoch. J...between 1 July 1789 and 8 April...returned to France before or during...trial by the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris. In the legal history of the Revolution...
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The Revolution in Provincial France: Aquitaine, 1789-1799
Book by Alan Forrest; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects: Aquitaine (France)--History, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
...History . 2. France-- History -- Revolution , 1789-1799. I. Title. DC195.A625F67 1996 994.7 -- dc20 96-5762...has served to broaden my understanding of the French Revolution outside Paris and to convince me of the primacy of geography...discussed and improved at seminars and conferences in France and beyond -- in Paris, Aix-enProvence, Brussels, Florence...where I enjoyed stimulating exchanges on French provincial history with antipodean historians of the Revolution. In Aquitaine...South-Western France 3 2 Provincial Divisions in 1789 7 3 Ecclesiastical Dioceses in 1789 8...
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The Era of the French Revolution, 1789-1799: Ten Years That Shook the World
Book by Leo Gershoy; D. Van Nostrand, 1957
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
THE ERA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1799 Ten Years That Shook the World LEO GERSHOY Professor of History New York University AN ANVIL ORIGINAL under the general...As the title of this small book suggests, the French Revolution was much more than a revolution in France. It was, of course, within the country of its origin...
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The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848
Book by E. J. Hobsbawm; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962
Subjects: Europe--History--1789-1900, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence, Industrial revolution--Influence
...Poles to their Fatherland , 1831, Dietrich Monten 1799 -- 1843 , National Gallery, Berlin Photo: Marburg...Illustrated London News 53 The Barricade , Delacroix 1789- 1863 , Louvre, Paris Photo: The Mansell Collection...1848 insofar as it was due to what is here called the dual revolution -- the French Revolution of 1789 and the contemporaneous...Industrial Revolution. It is therefore strictly neither a history of Europe nor of the world. Insofar as a country felt...the neighbouring and rival states of Great Britain and France. The transformation of 1789-1848 is...
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The Revolution in Provincial France, Aquitaine 1789-1799
Journal article by Cynthia S. Bisson; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, The Revolution in Provincial France, Aquitaine 1789-1799 (Book)--Reviews
The Revolution in Provincial France, Aquitaine 1789-1799 by Cynthia S. Bisson The Revolution in Provincial France, Aquitaine 1789-1799. By Alan Forrest. (Oxford and New York...
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"Let Them Eat Cake": The Mythical Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution
Journal article by Nancy N. Barker; The Historian, Vol. 55, 1993
Subjects: France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France--Public opinion, Misogyny--History
...future king of France at a critical juncture in French history. These questions are not new. Recent research in Revolutionary studies, however, provides historians with new ways to...officially and unofficially, from the time of her arrival in France until her death. Only then can the psychodynamics of the...not entirely new, took increasingly degrading tones. By 1789 in the pamphlets the queen was a nymphomaniac, insatiable...Haven, 1989), 29; Jeremy Popkin, The Press in France, 1789-1799 (London, 1990), 3. Popkin regards the newspaper press...
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Spectacle and Revolution in 1790s Tragedy
Journal article by Barbara Darby; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 39, 1999
Subjects: English drama (Tragedy)--18th century, France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Revolutions in literature--Analysis
...associated at various times with revolution and repression in France. See Paulson, p. 17. Richard...Pizarro (also Drury Lane, 1799) is perhaps the most famed...earlier in the century (A History of English Drama 1660-1900...the Decade of the French Revolution,"Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History 4, 2 (1988): 2-15, 6. 24...
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Fifty Years of Rewriting the French Revolution: John Dunne Signposts Main Landmarks and Current Directions in the Historiographical Debate
Journal article by John Dunne; History Review, 1998
Subjects: France--Revolution, 1789-1799, History--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Revolutions--France
...However, after the dust had settled, what emerged from the Revolution was something very much like the political and social order that the notables of 1789 had had in mind. Variants of this idea of a revolution of...bicentennial conferences held over the next three years. In France, for his frequent media appearances as well as his influence...Revolution was incorrect but called for a fresh empirical, social history approach to the Revolution. New Revisionists as a whole...
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Revaluating Revolution and Radicalness in the 'Lyrical Ballads
Journal article by Yu Liu; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 36, 1996
Subjects: Authors, English--19th century, France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Lyrical Ballads (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Narrative poetry--Social aspects, Romanticism--Social aspects, Wordsworth, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...consequence and an expression of deterministic history.(1) In particular, the inspirational origin...did not come across as overwhelmed by history. Rather than being overpowered with a...of salvation mitigates the calamitous history of Michaels vision,"(11) he continued...
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Austerlitz: The Battle of the Two Emperors: The Greatest Battle of Napoleon's Career Took Place Two Hundred Years Ago, on December 2nd, 1805. Although It Is Often Called the Battle of the Three Emperors, Michael Adams Sees It as a Very Personal Clash between Two Men Struggling for the Mastery of Europe
Magazine article by Michael Adams; History Today, Vol. 55, December 2005
Subjects: Alexander I, Czar of Russia--Behavior, Battle of Austerlitz, 1805, French history, 1789-1815, Napoleon I, Emperor of France--Behavior
...whose armies fought there--France, Russia and Austria--were...destined to play a key role in history. After a brief and unsuccessful...relationship that was crucial to the history of the early nineteenth century...replacing the Emperor as Europes leading light. First, though...Coalition of all four other major European powers (Russia, Prussia...Cassell, 1999). FROM THE HISTORY TODAY ARCHIVE David Gates...
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Popular Theatre in the French Revolution
Magazine article by Michele Root-Bernstein; History Today, Vol. 43, February 1993
Subjects: France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Theater and society--History, Theater--18th century
...All the worlds a stage... but for some in the years 1789-94, the peoples drama in Paris was not fast enough at reflecting...Michele Root-Bernstein looks at what was performed and how revolutionary it really was. During the French Revolution people from...that was not the only comic indignity. The very first history of the boulevard stage published in 1838 recalled that...ignominiously apprehended at Varennes in his flight from France and the Revolution. But a vocal part of those attending...
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Prison Pets in the French Revolution
Magazine article by Katharine Macdonogh; History Today, Vol. 46, August 1996
Subjects: Dogs--History, France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Pets--History
...alerting them to danger. Nougaret, in his History of the Paris Prisons of 1795, describes...their numbers multiplied during the Revolution, particularly after the September Massacres...explained to the Duchess de Tourzel in 1789: ... any noise to which he is not...Will anyone credit that a queen of France was reduced to having a little dog to...Both Nougaret and Freville (in his History of Famous Dogs written in 1796) assert...
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Napoleon's Rise to Power
Magazine article by Michael Rapport; History Today, Vol. 48, January 1998
Subjects: France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Political activity
...possession -- to America (Dec 20th). 1804 Introduction of the Code Napoleon (Mar 21st) -- a condition of the principles of the 1789 Revolution -- based on the absolute fights of property arid the legal equality of all citizens, though it did reduce the...Spain and the Italian kingdoms, arid creates the kingdoms of Poland, Netherlands and the German Confederation (Nov. 1st). 1815 Napoleon escapes from Elba (Feb 26th). Return to Paris (Mar 20th) to begin his Hundred Days in power. He invades Belgium...and after abdicating, is exiled to St Helena in the South Atlantic (June 22nd). Louis XVIII is restored as king and war in Europe formally ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris (Nov. 20th).
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Women & Politics: Madame Roland
Magazine article by Renee Winegarten; New Criterion, Vol. 18, October 1999
Subjects: France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Roland, Marie-Jeanne--Conduct of life, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques--Influence, Women in politics--18th century
...not simply the French Revolution of 1789 that inspired her concern with history, society, and the art of government...supreme political heroine of the French Revolution for Stendhal and Carlyle, was already...passed for it in eighteenth-century France. There was, at the same time, a kind...years she had devoted to the study of history and politics, she felt that she was...
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Foot Soldier of Napoleon Settled in Millburn Area
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 19, 2004
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of France
...men from Italy, Poland, Germany and France. These men, mostly conscripts drawn...brotherhood, as inherited from the French Revolution of 1789-1799, were deeply rooted in the ranks. It...Lake County, Illinois: An Illustrated History" is the collections coordinator for...Preserves, is an award-winning regional history museum on Route 176, west of Fairfield...
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The Battle That Made Our Nation, Incontestably, the Strongest on Earth; BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR BICENTENARY - A SIX-PAGE COMMEMORATIVE SPECIAL,As the 200th Anniversary of Nelson's Victory at Trafalgar Draws near, a Leading Historian Explains How That One Day Changed Britain's Future.Review
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 26, 2005
...but he and his victorious Navy had secured their place in history. That day 200 years ago was so much more than just one...the new British tactic of close blockade, adopted in 1799, had sharply limited their opportunities of gaining sea...we ask how Britain succeeded in naval warfare, although France throughout the 18th century was the larger and wealthier...towards which they were sliding - and into which they fell in 1789, when financial crisis led to the French Revolution. In 18th Century Britain, each war was partly paid for...
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Here's to George, Etc
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 11, 1999
Subjects: Washington, George
...marking trees to be cut on a brutally cold, Dec. 13, 1799, George Washington, 67, former commanding general of the...awaiting Washington had the outcome been different. The Revolutionary War itself did not officially end until nearly two years...beloved Mount Vernon to serve as Americas first president in 1789. He took the oath of office in New York City on April...fledging Republic could easily have imploded, as happened in France. The nation owes this man an incalculable debt. He...during the past 40 years. So whats going on? "Look at the history of Mars," Howard McCurdy of American University told The...


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