Few events are as complex as a social revolutionaas 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).
- ISBN10 0889200971
- ISBN13 9780889200975
- Publish Date 1 January 2006
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 December 2009
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 152
- Language English