The author applies the philosophies of Alexis de Tocqueville and Augustin Cochin to both historical and contemporary explanations of the French Revolution.

When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic pr

From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principle

Comparing the two great revolutions of the eighteenth century, the author concludes that despite their common philosophical origins, the Americans stressed indi

This book, first published in 2004, offers an interesting synthesis of the long- and short-term causes of the French Revolution.