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Here for perhaps the first time in a single volume, the French revolution is discussed not simply as the event of vast importance within the history of France, but as a part of a wide-ranging social, cultural, and philosophical change. The Atlantic Revolution emerges in this volume as a world transforming phenomenon, whose origins, development, and unifying principles have been until now only partially understood. In this new study, Professor Godechot, the distinguished French historian, finds it impossible adequately to review the French revolution without also considering the other uprisings that disrupted the world in the late eighteenth century: the American revolution; the English and I...
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