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Bourgeois, Sans-Culottes and Other Frenchmen

Essays on the French Revolution in Honor of John Hall Stewart

by (author) Morris Slavin & Agnes M. Smith

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2006
Category
France, Essays, Revolutionary
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780889206090
    Publish Date
    Jan 2006
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554585908
    Publish Date
    Jan 2006
    List Price
    $34.99

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Few events are as complex as a social revolution—as the disputes among historians over the nature of the French Revolution attest. Was it Atlantic or national, bourgeois or sans-culotte, a product of poverty or prosperity, one revolution or several? The essays in this volume, in honour of an eminent student of the Revolution, demonstrate the complexity once again. Stanley Idzerda and Ruth Strong Hudson consider the cases of two individuals influential in the Revolution, Lafayette and Gerard, while James Harkins investigates the intellectual origins of Babouvism. Themistocles Rodis asks whether morals declined during the Revolution, and Morris Slavin reassesses the effect on the Revolution of the struggle in section Roi de Sicile between monarchists and republicans. Agnes Smith and James Friguglietti examine the assessment of the Revolution by a contemporary observer (Toulongeon) and a twentieth-century historian (Mathiez).

About the authors

Morris Slavin, Professor of History at Youngstown State University, Ohio, holds the Ph.D. degree from Western Reserve University. His publications have appeared in Annales historiques de la revolution francaise, as well as other journals, and he has recently completed a study of Section Droits de I'Homme during the French Revolution.

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Morris Slavin, Professor of History at Youngstown State University, Ohio, holds the Ph.D. degree from Western Reserve University. His publications have appeared in Annales historiques de la revolution francaise, as well as other journals, and he has recently completed a study of Section Droits de I'Homme during the French Revolution.

Agnes M. Smith's profile page