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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr Publisher Comments “Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” —Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama Publisher Comments Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France (P.S.) by Lucy Moore Publisher Comments The ideals of the French Revolution inflamed a longing for liberty and equality within courageous, freethinking women of the era—women who played vital roles in the momentous events that reshaped their nation and the world. In Liberty, Lucy Moore... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France by David Andress Publisher Comments For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an orgy of apparently pointless bloodletting has been the focus of countless reflections on the often malignant... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe (Making History) by Andrew Roberts Publisher Comments June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon and his hastily formed legions clashed with... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Further Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments In his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Edmund Burke excoriated French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France's venerable institutions and way of life. But his war against the French intelligentsia did not end there,... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments Burke's Reflections (1790) predicted with uncanny accuracy the Reign of Terror which lay ahead . . . The book, however, is far more than a supremely eloquent piece of occasional writing. For Burke is without doubt the foremost conservative British... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Terror Civil War in the French Revolutio by David Andress Publisher Comments In this wholly definitive work, David Andress examines the The French Revolution: the birth of a new ideological age and the bloody emergence of Europe's first political terrorists.... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore Publisher Comments "Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights," declared Olympe de Gouges in 1791. Throughout the French Revolution, women, inspired by a longing for liberty and equality, played a vital role in stoking the fervor and idealism of those years... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Lynn Averywhis Hunt Publisher Comments This brief documentary history includes 38 documents that explore the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France and the movement that helped define modern notions of civil rights.... (read more) List Price $14.40 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution by Francois Furet Publisher Comments Two centuries later, the French Revolution--that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy--continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. The ambition of this magnificent volume is not only to present the reader with the... (read more) List Price $175.75 Your price: $76.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution (Penguin Classics) by Alexis Tocqueville Publisher Comments A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville's influential look at the origins of modern France In this penetrating study, Alexis de Tocqueville considers the French Revolution in the context of France's history. de Tocqueville worried that although the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The French Revolution and British Popular Politics by Mark Philp Publisher Comments The nine essays in this collection focus on the dynamics of British popular politics in the 1790s and on the impact of the French Revolution and the subsequent war with France. Leading scholars in the field explore the nature and origins of the... (read more) List Price $44.75 Your price: $22.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794 by Graeme Fife Publisher Comments For the audience that made a major bestseller of Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution comes this exhaustively researched, character-driven chronicle of revolutionary terror, its victims, and the young men... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Place of the French Revolution in History (Vintage Contemporaries) by Marvin R Cox Publisher Comments This volume in the Problems in European Civilization series collects key essays from the historiography of the French Revolution, including positivist, Marxist, post-Marxist, and post-modern perspectives.... (read more) List Price $55.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon, 1710-1715: The Bastards Triumphant by Lucy Norton Synopsis Saint Simon kept a journal during the 30 plus years he was a peer at the French court. He spent his retirement writing his memoirs, a first-hand account of the train-wreck that eventually lead to the French Revolution. When he died, his memoirs were... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Citizens :a chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama Publisher Comments Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology -- a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations. From the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Refelctions of the Imapct of the French Revolution: 1789, de Tocqueville, & Romanian Culture by Alexandru Zub Publisher Comments Seven essays in which Zub (director, A. D. Xenopol Institute of History in Iasi, Romania) explores the consequences of the French Revolution for culture and civilization in 19th and 20th centuries, especially in the Romanian lands. He analyzes the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $9.23 Used - Hardcover
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The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alex De Tocqueville List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke List Price $10.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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