Bourgeois, Sans-Culottes and Other Frenchmen: Essays on the French Revolution in Honor of John Hall Stewart

by Agnes Smith, Moris Slavin, Agnes M. Smith

Few events are as complex as a social revolution--as the disputes among historians over the nature of the French Revolution attest. Was it Atlantic or national, bourgeois or sans-culotte , a product of poverty or prosperity, one revolution or several? The essays in this volume, in honour of an eminent student of the Revolution, demonstrate the complexity once again. Stanley Idzerda and Ruth Strong Hudson consider the cases of two individuals influential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554585902
• ISBN13: 9781554585908
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 152 Pages