|Lively, well-written, satirical and profound.' - Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieThis stimulating one-volume history traces the social and economic evolution of France

This one-volume history traces the social and economic evolution of France as a nation from 987 to the present day. The author's interpretation emphazises how p

On 14 July 1789 thousands of Parisians seized the Bastille fortress in Paris. This was the most famous episode of the Revolution of 1789, when huge numbers of F

The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837

A Marxist analysis of the causes and course of the French Revolution argues that it can be understood, on all levels, only in terms of class struggle.