The French Revolution Class War or Culture Clash?

Few historical events have inspired so much controversy and debate as the French Revolution. The origins, nature and effects of the Revolution have been the themes of a voluminous literature, especially since the 1950s, and there has been sharp disagreeme

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Studies in European History

General Editor: Richard Overy Editorial Consultants: John Breuilly & Roy Porter PUBLISHED TITLES A Military Revolution? Military Change and European Society, 1550-1800 T. C. ltv. Blanning The French Revolution (Second Edition) The Formation of the First German John Breuilly Nation-State, 1800-1871 The Renaissance (Second Edition) PeterBurke The Cold War, 1945-1963 MichaelDockrill William Doyle The Ancien Regime The Napoleonic Empire Geoffrey Ellis The Khrushchev Era Donald A. Filtzer The Two Germanies, 1945-1990 Mary Fulbrook European Labour Politics from 1900 to the R. G. Geary Depression Stalinism (Second Edition) Graeme Gill The Terror in th e French Revolution Hugh Gough The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of John Henry Modern Science Golden Age Spain Henry Kamen Richard Mackenney The City-State, 1500-1700 European Imperialism, 1860-1914 A ndrew Porter Roy Porter The Enlightenment The Revolutions of 1848 RogerPrice Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II James Retallack Witchcraft an d Magic in 16th- and 17th-Century Geoffrey Scarre Europe The German Reformation R. ltv. Scribner The Russian Revolution , 1900-1927 (Second Robert Service Edition) The Outbreak of the First World War Dav id Stevenson

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The French Revolution Class War or Culture Clash? Second Edition

T.

c. W. Blanning

Professor of Modern European History, University of Cambridge

First published in Great Britain 1998 by

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The French Revolution : class war or culture clash? / T.C.W. Blanning. - 2nd ed. p. cm. - (Studies in European history) First ed. published in 1987 with the subtitle: Aristocrats versus bourgeois? Atlantic Highlands. NJ : Humanities Press International. 1987. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-312-17521-3 (pbk .) I. France-History-Revolution. 1789-1799-Causes. 2. France-Politics and government-I 789-1 799-Influence. 3. Social classes-France-History-18th century . 4. Culture conflict-France-History-18th century . I. Title. II. Series : Studies in European history (New York. N.Y.) DC138 .B52 1998 944.04-dc21 97-9606 CIP © T. C. W. Blanning 1987.1998

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