This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event. It was not s

A wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the question 'How did the French Revolution become thinkable?'.

What Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course. It also launched

"Despite critical interest in the role of women in the French Revolution, there is no single, comprehensive study of the works of the two most prolific women wr

Drawing on some 2,000 sources, this is a remarkable history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popula