I was assigned this book for a graduate level course. It is a crucial read for anyone studying the French Revolution. It demonstrates a particular side of the debate between social and intellectual historians.
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Keith Michael Baker is a highly esteemed historian (previously at U. of Chicago, now at Stanford) of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. This book is a collection of essays that are unified by their subject matter, which can be described as "the intellectual and ideological origins of the French Revolution".A few of these essays are more historiographical/theoretical in nature. That is to say, they are more concerned...
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