Title: The French Revolution and Napoleon
Description: This volume collects together a wide selection of primary texts explain the process behind the enormous changes undergone by France and Europe between 1787 and 1815, from the Terror to the Counter-Revolution and from Marie-Antoinette to Robespierre and Bonaparte. While bringing the impact of historical events to life, Philip Dwyer and Peter McPhee provide a clear outline of the period through key documents and lucid introductory passages and commentary. They illustrate the meaning of the Revolution for peasants, sans-culottes, women, and slaves, as well as placing events within a wider European context.
Subjects: Sources, Nonfiction, History, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, Napoleon i, emperor of the french, 1769-1821, campaigns, Franse Revolutie