num_pages: 287
description: In this excellent introduction to the French Revolution historian Sylvia Neely shows how particular political choices during that period led to reform revolution terror and dictatorship. The profound transformations in government and society during the revolution forced the French to come up with new ways of thinking about their place in the world and led to what we know today as liberalism conservatism terrorism and nationalism.
language: English
title: A Concise History of the French Revolution
publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers