num_pages: 496
description: This second edition of the most authoritative and comprehensive history of the French Revolution draws on a wealth of new research in order to reassess the greatest of all revolutions. It includes a generous chronology of events and an extended bibliographical essay providing an examination ofthe historiography of the Revolution. Beginning with the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, leading historian William Doyle traces the history of France through revolution, terror, and counter-terror, to the triumph of Napoleon in 1802, along the way analyzing the impact of these events in France uponthe rest of Europe. He explores how a movement which began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy, not only for the ruling orders, but for millions of ordinary people all over Europe who paid the price for the destruction of the old political order and the struggle to establish anew one.Highly readable and meticulously researched, The Oxford History of the French Revolution will provide new insight into one of the most important events in European history.
language: English
title: The Oxford History of the French Revolution
titlecomplete: The Oxford History of the French Revolution
characters: Maximilien de Robespierre, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Louis XVI of France, Napoléon Bonaparte, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Jean-Paul Marat, Marie Antoinette, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Georges Danton, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Jacques Necker, Lazare Carnot
genres: History, Reference, France, War, 18th Century, European History, Politics, World History, French Revolution, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1018
publisher: Oxford University Press