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The Jacobin Republic Under Fire : The Federalist Revolt In The French Revolution, Paul Hanson
The Jacobin Republic Under Fire : The Federalist Revolt In The French Revolution, Paul Hanson
Paul R. Hanson
"One of the central questions of the French Revolution is what happened to the country from the time the monarchy collapsed in the summer of 1791, when the prospects for popular democracy seemed brightest, to the Terror of 1793-94, when the Committee of Public Safety ruled by fiat and repression. A key moment during this interim period was the so-called Federalist Revolt, when four provincial cities - Caen, Bordeaux, Lyon, and Marseille - rebelled against the more radical revolutionaries in Paris threatening to plunge France into civil war. Over the years some very good work has been published on the …
Contesting The French Revolution, Paul Hanson
Contesting The French Revolution, Paul Hanson
Paul R. Hanson
"This book presents an overview of what led up to this pivotal event, the turning points that shaped it, and its far-reaching effects, as well as examining the most significant historiographical debates about this period. Were the events of 1789 a social revolution or a political accident? Did they mark the rise of industrial capitalism or the birth of modern democracy? Was the Reign of Terror a response to foreign war and domestic resistance or the product of Jacobin ideology? Paul Hanson offers an engaging analysis of these debates, showing us how historical interpretation of the French Revolution has been …
Historical Dictionary Of The French Revolution, Paul Hanson
Historical Dictionary Of The French Revolution, Paul Hanson
Paul R. Hanson
The French Revolution remains one of the most examined events in world history. Most historians would argue that it was the first "modern" revolution, an event so momentous that it gave the word revolution its current connotation of a political and/or social upheaval that marks a decisive break with the past and moves a society in a forward or progressive direction.- WorldCat
Les Centres Fédéralistes: Avaient-Ils Un Projet Commun?, Paul Hanson
Les Centres Fédéralistes: Avaient-Ils Un Projet Commun?, Paul Hanson
Paul R. Hanson
Conference paper published in: Les fédéralismes : réalités et représentations, 1789-1874 : actes du colloque de Marseille, septembre 1993.
Voices From The Streets In The French Revolution, Paul Hanson
Voices From The Streets In The French Revolution, Paul Hanson
Paul R. Hanson
Book Chapter in K. Steven Vincent and Alison Klairmont-Lingo's, The Human Tradition in Modern France