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| 1 | France under Louis XVI | 1 |
| 2 | Enlightened Opinion | 44 |
| 3 | Crisis and Collapse, 1776-1788 | 66 |
| 4 | The Estates-General, September 1788-July 1789 | 86 |
| 5 | The Principles of 1789 and the Reform of France | 112 |
| 6 | The Breakdown of the Revolutionary Consensus, 1790-1791 | 136 |
| 7 | Europe and the Revolution, 1788-1791 | 159 |
| 8 | The Republican Revolution, October 1791-January 1793 | 174 |
| 9 | War against Europe, 1792-1797 | 197 |
| 10 | The Revolt of the Provinces | 220 |
| 11 | Government by Terror, 1793-1794 | 247 |
| 12 | Thermidor, 1794-1795 | 272 |
| 13 | Counter-Revolution, 1789-1795 | 297 |
| 14 | The Directory, 1795-1799 | 318 |
| 15 | Occupied Europe, 1794-1799 | 341 |
| 16 | An End to Revolution, 1799-1802 | 369 |
| 17 | The Revolution in Perspective | 391 |
| Notes | 426 | |
| App. 1 | Chronology of the French Revolution | 436 |
| App. 2 | The Revolutionary Calendar | 444 |
| App. 3 | The Revolution and its Historians | 446 |
| Index | 461 |
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Sherri Lamar
reviewed Oxford History of the French Revolution on January 31, 2013
Oxford History of the French Revolution
I read this because I was taking a college class on the French Revolution and Napoleon, although it was not assigned reading. This seems to be a pretty comprehensive history of the French Revolution. I particularly liked the first chapter giving a wide survey of the conditions in France pre-Revolution and the concluding chapter that analyzes the impact of the Revolution and the lasting effects it had on French society. Despite being a general history it is at times quite insightful.
However, while the content is good, the style is less so. Parts of the book make for really good reading while others seem to drag. There are a great many overlong paragraphs. Part of the narrative is chronological and part is in parallel; this can be a useful focus, but at times makes understanding the order of events confusing. The Revolution also had a complicated cast of characters that Doyle is unable to prevent from becoming confusing (though I suspect this would be a difficult task for anyone).
A good but at times difficult book.
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