From Deficit to Deluge - The Origins of the French Revolution

Zusatztext "The contributors to From Deficit to Deluge represent a good slice of the leading American historians of eighteenth-century France . . . [Readers] will find a series of illuminating, clearly-written essays that largely summarize and bring together the results of work conducted since the bicentennial . . . [A]nyone who teaches the history of the French Revolution on a college or graduate level will find the essays particularly helpful for students." Informationen zum Autor Thomas E. Kaiser is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Dale K. Van Kley is Professor of Early Modern European History at The Ohio State University. Klappentext Thomas E. Kaiser is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Dale K. Van Kley is Professor of Early Modern European History at The Ohio State University. Zusammenfassung Seven authorities in their respective fields come together to offer a new interpretation of the French Revolution: they show how the French monarchy's clumsy efforts to solve a fiscal crisis politicized long-standing structural problems, metastasizing an apparently fairly "normal" fiscal crisis into a revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas (EDT)/ Van Kley Kaiser, Thomas E. Van Kley Kaiser
• Assisted by: Thomas Kaiser (Editor), Thomas E. Kaiser (Editor), Dale K. Van Kley (Editor), Dale Van Kley (Editor), Dale K. Van Kley (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2010
• EAN: 9780804772808
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7280-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous