The economic history of revolutionary France is still a neglected area in studies of the Revolution of 1789. Whilst some attention has been given to the conditi

The author applies the philosophies of Alexis de Tocqueville and Augustin Cochin to both historical and contemporary explanations of the French Revolution.

Alfred Cobban's The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution is one of the acknowledged classics of post-war historiography. This 'revisionist' analysis o

This book, first published in 2004, offers an interesting synthesis of the long- and short-term causes of the French Revolution.