Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution (Mason Welch Gross Lecture Series)
A veteran historian of the Left, Hobsbawm examines not the French Revolution itself but changing 19th- and 20th-century interpretations of it. The marking of its bicentenary, especially in France, has been dominated by the revisionist view that the Revolution was not historically important and had primarily negative effects. Hobsbawm writes to defend the traditional view that the Revolution transformed the world, making both the people and their governments forever aware that the people cannot be ignored. Much of his argument is addressed to historians of the Left, but his general conclusions will interest all historians of the modern world. For research collections.- Nancy C. Cridland, Indiana Univ. Libs., BloomingtonCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.