Reviews for The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852

The average rating for The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852 based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-28 00:00:00 Harvey Morgan Baluarte 32 This is the most expensive book I own and a beauty to flick through. I have only read a few chapters so far but I have enjoyed them all. This is as much a historiography as a history, with reviews of how the subjects have been interpreted since the event. Given the millenial potency of the Revolution, the interpretations of it in history have themselves shaped events. One of the things I like is its rejection of the materialist myopia in history-writing and restoration of cultural factors as important. (Although that may be a resulkt of the chapters I have principally read: Tocqueville, Burke, Montesquieu and others I cannot recall at the moment.)

Review # 2 was written on 2010-04-21 00:00:00 Hursell Dolly An okay overview dealing with the question of why, when in 1500 it looked as if France would be the dominant political player for the upcoming century, England and the Netherlands took the lead. Answers lie in the Wars of Religion and the monarchy's fiscal policy focusing on military campaigns paid for with credit.