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Revolutionary Europe 1783-1815 (1964)

by George Rudé

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The new edition of this classic account of Revolutionary Europe brings to life many of the key issues that have fascinated historians since the fall of the Bastille and now includes a new introduction examining RudU's life and works and an updated list of readings.
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    Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama (vguy)
    vguy: Goes much deeper and gives the drama.
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    Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr (vguy)
    vguy: Centred on the one person, nonetheless this gives a much wider sense of the events and causes than managed by Rudé
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I was frustrated at first since this is as much analysis as history and I wanted straighter history. Rude tends to assume the reader’s already familiar with the general history of the revolution. But I warmed to it - the French Revolution’s confusing enough; without general European social and economic context prior, and assessment of its various and widespread impacts during and after, a straight narrative of facts primarily within France from 1789 to 1815 would probably leave a reader pretty unenlightened (bad pun – couldn’t help it). So this is a good analysis; now I have to find a more substantial history. ( )
  garbagedump | Dec 9, 2022 |
A bit flat. Too short to cover such a big canvas adequately. Whole countries just appear like chess-pieces. the reader loses the sense of perspective and motive: "Russia did this Prussia did that". Despite Rudé's interest in the crowd and the underdog, they get little look-in.Scurr's book on Robespierre gives a much better picture of the effects of the mob and of the ideals that ran through the Revolution. Schama too, in a longer work, gives the atmosphere and the ideology due weight. ( )
  vguy | Jun 26, 2015 |
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Europe, on the eve of the French Revolution, presented a picture of deep and varying contrasts - the contrast between the developed West and the undeveloped East; between the expansion of trade, industry and population and the relative stagnation of agriculture; and between the wide dissemination of news and ideas and the tenacious conservatism of social relations and political institutions.
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