From Deficit to Deluge: The Origins of the French Revolution

by Thomas Kaiser

Book Overview

From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the 1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial policy. In this book, seven established authorities explore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804772819
• ISBN13: 9780804772815
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"