Volume 9, Number 7 · October 26, 1967
Everybody's French Revolution
By C.B.A. Behrens
Revolutionary Europe, 1783-1815
by George Rudé
Harper & Row, 301 pp., $6.95
It has long been usual in France for the scholar to make his reputation by writing a learned monograph, but then to want to try his hand in some wider and more popular field. As the monographs multiply the need to keep the textbooks up-to-date becomes more pressing; as the university population grows the market for textbooks increases. These developments, now common in many European countries, have provided the scholar with his opportunity, and Professor Rudé is a case in point. He first became known to the academic world by a study of the crowd in the French Revolution and by comparable studies in the history of eighteenth-century England. Now he has produced a volume in a series of textbooks entitled 'The History of Europe.' The series, in the traditional manner, is divided into chronological periods which in most cases begin and end with major international peace settlements. Professor Rudé's period extends from the end of the war of American Independence to the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
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