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- ISBN 9780708311448
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 1992
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The subject of the origins of the French Revolution is one of the most important and controversial themes in European history. This fresh critical appraisal begins with a masterly exposition and assessment of recent scholarly debate on the subject, followed by a lucid analysis, supported by documentary evidence, of the multiple stresses which undermined the Old Regime. The author concludes that a revolution was unavoidable because the Old Regime was incapable of reforming fundamental defects in its political structures, but it was the contingent circumstances of 1788-9 that made the Revolution unexpectedly radical.
Dr Nora Temple is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wales College of Cardiff.
