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Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, 'Après moi, le déluge' (after me...

This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution...

This 1989 analysis of the urban trades of eighteenth-century France lays the foundations for stud...

The abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836) distinguished himself as the chief theoretician of th...

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'A reflection on the legacy of money, law, and history in modern political thought'

Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-J...