This book is a fascinating survey of nineteenth-century republicanism, the first of its kind this century. It investigates why it was that although France was o

This investigation is based on archival research in Paris and a number of departments and on printed material, including an invaluable, if not always well repro

Republicanism is a centuries-old political tradition, yet its precise meaning has long been contested. The term has been used to refer to government in the publ

Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged in

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