From Deficit to Deluge: The Origins of the French 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.

Author: Thomas E. Kaiser
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 12/29/2010
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780804772808

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2011

About the Author
Thomas E. Kaiser is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Dale K. Van Kley is Professor of Early Modern European History at The Ohio State University.