The Terror in the French Revolution (Studies in European History)
(Part of the Studies in European History Series)
In the STUDIES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY series, this book examines the arguments, analyses the Terror's background and charts the history that lies between the fall of the Bastille and the work of the guillotine during the Terror. Aimed at history undergraduates studying eighteenth century French history.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0333601394
ISBN13:9780333601396
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:MacMillan
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
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Student Review
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This book deals with academic views of the Terror and also gives a chronological account of events, from 1789 to the fall of Robespierre in 1794. The author himself leans towards the more modern revisionist argument, that the Terror was the result of both circumstance and problems within the French political system. Hugh Gough balances the academic arguments and the account of historical events far more successfully than T.C.W. Blanning's "The French Revolution" from the same series, which becomes confused by presentation of conflicting arguments alongside the historical narrative, leaving me unsure which parts are reliable as evidence. That pitfall is avoided in this book.Overall, the book gives a good, concise picture of events and facilitates further reading on the subject, containing an excellent bibliography, each entry evaluated by a short sentence. As a student I found the book most useful, making much additional reading unnecessary, and it was also quite inexpensive.I should probably declare that I was lectured on this course by Prof. Hugh Gough in University College Dublin. Even so, for any students studying the French Revolutionary era this book would prove invaluable.
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