How to Understand the French Revolution
To most Americans, the French revolution of 1789 boils down to three things: Marie Antoinette sneering, "Let them eat cake!", a ragged mob storming the Bastille and guillotines chopping off noblemen's heads 24/7. Each of these things actually .. [... more]
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The French Revolution
 A truly unique and excellent Revolution read...: I don't know what the previous reviewer was thinking when he gave this book one star. I've never written a review for a book here before, but I just had to counterbalance the negative review below. This is [... more]
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What Brought on the French Revolution?
No matter how much the American economy grows during the next decade, the government will have serious trouble funding expanding entitlements, increased education spending, and ongoing wars in the Middle East, while maintaining a global military ... [... more]
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The French Revolution
Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the [... more]
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French Revolution
The French Revolution is a collection of key texts at the forefront of current research and interpretation, challenging orthodox assumptions concerning the origins, development and long-term historical consequences of the Revolution. [... more]
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The Assignat Inflation
Inflation and the French Revolution: The Story of a Monetary Catastrophe As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime (1789-94) was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign ... [... more]
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Christianity's Free-Market Tradition
Some of my Christian friends are suspicious of my interest in economics. They see economics as a product of Enlightenment rationalism, along with deism, atheism, the chaos of the French Revolution and other un-Christian aspects of the modern ... [... more]
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Liberty and the Common Good
Defenders of liberty are prone to despair, perhaps always, and certainly since the end of the eighteenth century, when the hopes of the last Enlightenment generation were dashed as the French Revolution descended into tyranny and war, and the ... [... more]
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The French Revolution
Most people think a tennis court is just for playing tennis. But, in June 1789, representatives of the National Assembly of France gathered together on a tennis court and pledged not to disband until a constitution was written in their favor. It was [... more]
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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician. He served as mayor of Belley, the city where he was born, but his opposition to the Jacobins during the French Revolution made it necessary for him to flee to Switzerland in 1792. ... [... more]
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Walter Laqueur
From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction A History of Zionism Walter Laqueur Edward Holland [... more]
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Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A ...
Book Description: Stone uses rec ent scholarship on the diplomatic, political, social, economic, and cultureal history of eighteenth-century and revolutionary France to argue that the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the dramatic developments of [... more]
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