Shulim, Joseph I.
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity

Studies on the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

This volume collects twelve major articles and several reviews, published between 1950 and 1985, as well as two previously unpublished papers. In the first section the author examines the reactions mainly of American contemporaries to the French Revolution and, especially, to Napoleon and his rule. An Age of Atlantic Revolutions emerges from these essays. The French Revolution, the predominant one of the age, is analyzed in the next section. In these chapters, the author moves toward a new interpretation of the origins and nature of the French Revolution. He examines the traditional or Marxist interpretation critically and concludes by questioning its validity. The chapters in the last section reassess important aspects of the life of Robespierre. XI,287 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; Vol. 75/Peter Lang Verlag 1989) Mängelexemplar/near mint