French Society in Revolution, 1789-99 [Paperback]

French society in revolution aims to retrieve the social history of the French Revolution from unjustified neglect.

This study examines both the structural and cultural elements behind the breakdown of the eighteenth-century monarchic state and its aris.

Introduction

1. France before Revolution

2. The emergence of political involvement, 1787-1789

3. The Great Journees, July-October 1789

4. The Reconstructive Project, 1790-1791

5. The Breakdown of the Socio-Political Order, 1791-1792

6. The Supremacy of Politics? Terror, 1792-1794

7. The Quest for Social Order - Thermidor and beyond

Conclusion

David Andress is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Portsmouth