ABSTRACT

This book examines the European world before 1789, recounts the history of the revolution in France itself and then explores its monumental impact on European society. The book focusses on the causes of this impact and discusses the levels of thinking, communication, social, political, and economic conditions in France at the time, which combined to make the revolution possible and which were similar to those developments elsewhere in Europe.

 

chapter 1|37 pages

The Old Order

chapter 2|31 pages

The French Revolution, 1789–92

chapter 3|27 pages

A World Aroused

chapter 4|26 pages

France: The Revolution Invincible

chapter 9|18 pages

Germany: The Revolution Philosophized

chapter 10|20 pages

The Explosive Inheritance: Myth and History