The French Revolution

rethinking the debate

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Gwynne Lewis provides the first short introductory history of the French Revolution to relate the social, economic and cultural to the intellectual and political. Combining interpretive narrative with thematic analysis, the author engages with past and present controversies, incorporating traditional and major recent studies into a new synthesis. The book provides students with an accessible and challenging resume of the Revolution and its historians.