Main entry:

Dictionnaire critique de la révolution française. English.

Title & Author:

A critical dictionary of the French Revolution / edited by François Furet and Mona Ozouf ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989.

Description:

xxii, 1063 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Dictionnaire critique de la révolution française.
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
I. EVENTS -- Chouannerie -- Coups d'Etat -- De-Christianization -- Elections -- Estates General -- Federalism -- Federation -- Great Fear -- Italian Campaign -- King's Trial -- Night of August 4 -- The Revolution and Europe -- Revolutionary Journees -- Terror -- Treaties of Basel and The Hague -- Varennes -- Vendee -- II. ACTORS : Individuals -- Babeuf -- Barnave -- Carnot -- Condorcet -- Danton -- Lafayette -- Louis XVI -- Marat -- Marie Antoinette -- Mirabeau -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- Necker -- Robespierre -- Sieyes -- Groups : Emigres -- Enrages -- Feuillants -- Girondins -- Hebertists -- Monarchiens -- Montagnards -- Sans-culottes -- Thermidorians -- III. INSTITUTIONS AND CREATIONS -- Army -- Assignats -- Civil Code -- Civil Constitution of the Clergy -- Clubs and Popular Societies -- Committee of Public Safety -- Constitution -- Departement -- Maximum -- National Properties -- Paris Commune -- Revolutionary Assemblies -- Revolutionary Calendar -- Revolutionary Government -- Revolutionary Religion -- Suffrage -- Taxes -- IV. IDEAS -- American Revolution -- Ancien Regime -- Aristocracy -- Centralization -- Counterrevolution -- Democracy -- Enlightenment -- Equality -- Feudal System -- Fraternity -- Jacobinism -- Liberty -- Montesquieu -- Nation -- Natural Borders -- Physiocrats -- Public Spirit -- Regeneration -- Republic -- Revolution -- Rights of Man -- Rousseau -- Sovereignty -- Vandalism -- Voltaire -- V. HISTORIANS AND COMMENTATORS -- Academic History of the Revolution -- Blanc -- Buchez -- Burke -- Constant -- Fichte -- Guizot -- Hegel -- Jaures -- Kant -- Maistre -- Marx -- Michelet -- Quinet -- Stael -- Taine -- Tocqueville.

Summary:

A collection of essays by a wide range of international scholars covering virtually every aspect of the French Revolution. Consists of ninety-nine entries organized alphabetically by key words and themes under five major headings: events ; actors (individuals, groups) ; institutions ; ideas ; historians and commentators.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0674177282 (alk. paper)
9780674177284 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Historiography
France History Revolution, 1789-1799.
France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Historiography.
France Politics and government Revolution, 1789-1799
France Histoire 1789-1799 (Révolution)
France Histoire 1789-1799 (Révolution) Historiographie.
France
France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Encyclopedias.
France History 1789-1799, Revolution.
French Revolution, 1789-1799

Form/genre:

Reference works
History
Ouvrages de référence.

Added entries:

Furet, François, 1927-1997, editor.
Ozouf, Mona, editor.
Goldhammer, Arthur, translator.
Furet, François, 1927-
Ozouf, Mona.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 56892
Call No.: ID DC148 REF; ID:90-B5184
Status: Available