Beyond the Terror
Subtitle: Essays in French Regional and Social History 1794-1815
Contributors: Gwynne Lewis (Editor); Colin Lucas (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 18, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521893824
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History - General History; History; History: World; Europe; Europe - General; History / Europe / General
First sentence: Present-day scholars approach the history of France, and especially the history of the French Revolution, must negotiate three main ideological currents: first, the Anglo-Saxon tradition of empiricism, of which Richard Cobb provides an eccentric example; secondly, the French Marxist tradition of historiography; and thirdly, the influence (some would now say the imperialistic influence) of the Annales school.