Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989

by Steven Laurence Kaplan

Overview

The interpretation of the French Revolution has long been the most contentious issue in French history. This fascinating account of the controversies surrounding the Revolution's 200th anniversary will be indispensable for all who wish to understand both France's future and its past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801427183
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	04/26/1995
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Steven Laurence Kaplan is Goldwin Smith Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Four Trade during the Eighteenth Century and of the complementary work Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989, both from Cornell.

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent two-volume study, along with The Historians' Feud, of France's bicentennial commemoration of its most famous revolution. . . . A remarkable, comprehensive account."—International Labor and Working-Class History

From the Publisher

"An excellent two-volume study of France's bicentennial commemoration of its most famous revolution.... A remarkable, comprehensive account."

International Labor and Working-Class History

"Kaplan's analysis of the tactics of the far right... is authoritative and convincing. Impressive also is the understanding shown for President François Mitterand, who sought to preserve the integrity of the Revolution while jettisoning the totalitarian extremes.... Kaplan does a first-rate job of distilling the interpretation of François Furet, the "unwitting midwife" of a reactionary zeal that impregnated the best-known of the historians present.... The book fills an important gap."

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