From Deficit to Deluge The Origins of the French Revolution |
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| Editor:
| Kaiser, Thomas E.
Van Kley, Dale K. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-7719-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $3.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.