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'REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE, 1783-1815 (FONTANA HISTORY OF EUROPE)'

History

Rudé, George

Europe

FONTANA PAPERBACKS (AUSTRALIA)

Revolutionary Europe, 1783-1815

Harper&Row

Debate on Europe 1815-1850.

Robespierre

PRENTICE/HALL

What kinds of people were in the crowds that stormed the Bastille, marched to Versailles to bring the king and queen back to Paris, overthrew the monarchy in August 1792, or impassively witnessed the downfall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor? Who led these crowds or mobilized them to action? What did they hope to achieve, and how far were their aims realized? Earlier historians have tended to view the revolutionary crowd as an abstraction--"people" or "mob" according to the writer's prejudice--often even as the personification of good or evil. Professor Rudé's book, published originally in 1959, makes a first attempt to bring objectively to life each of the important Parisian crowds between 1787 and 1795. Using police records and other contemporary research materials, the author identifies the social groups represented in them, contrasts the crowds with their political leaders, relates their activities to underlying economic and psychological tensions, and compares the Parisian crowd "patterns" to those of other popular movements in France and Britain during the 18th and early 19th centuries.

The Crowd in the French Revolution

Oxford University Press

This social history not only studies crime and punishment in early 19th-century England, but also draws on higher court records to reconstruct case histories of the actual people involved in crime: the prisoners and the victims. The book focuses on Sussex, Gloucester, and Middlesec counties, each in its own way typical of developments in early British industrial society between 1800 and 1850. By examining crime as a social as well as a legal phenomenon, the book casts new light on the different urban and rural patterns of crime, the influence of economic and political factors, and the social profiles of both criminals and victims.

Criminal and Victim: Crime and Society in Early Nineteenth-Century England

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

No dust jacket, shelf wear to boards, bookseller's marks. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Wilkes and Liberty; a Social Study of 1763 to 1774

Clarendon Press

Crowd in the French Revolution (Oxford Paperbacks)

Oxford Univ. Press

French Revolution

Weidenfield and Nicolson

Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge (History of Civilization)

World

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

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