From Deficit To Deluge

Stanford University Press, 2010-12-29. paperback. Good. 6x0x9. tight, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, ex-library copy with usual library markings and laminated cover, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, base spine little rubbed, minor edgewear. 345 pp. This book of essays examines the shifts in scholarly investigations of the origins of the French Revolution. While each chapter focuses upon one site of contention-fiscal, social, religious, diplomatic, ideological, and colonial-they all help to explain how long-standing structural… Ler mais sobre este item

Paperback / softback. New. 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.