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The French Revolution
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Series: Worldmaking
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ISBN10: 100946390X
ISBN13: 9781009463904
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781009463904
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Three questions have usually been asked about the French Revolution: why did it happen? why was it so violent? and what was its legacy? These questions seem to beg other, more conceptually ambitious queries about causation, violence or legacies. This book aims to answer both sets of questions by bringing together events and ideas. Michael Sonenscher draws on neglected aspects of eighteenth-century intellectual and political life and thought to demonstrate the importance of ideas for making connections between historical explanation and historical narrative. Concisely synthesizing a broad range of established scholarship, Sonenscher utilises new and fresh information to explore why using ideas as evidence adds a dimension of novelty, possibility, expectation and choice to the social, cultural and political history of the French Revolution.This is history about what was expected, but did not happen, and what was unexpected, but really did.
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