Peter McPhee (1) (1948–)
Auteur de Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Peter McPhee, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Peter McPhee is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne
Œuvres de Peter McPhee
A Social History of France 1780-1880 (Routledge Social History of the Modern World) (1992) 14 exemplaires
A Companion to the French Revolution (Blackwell Companions to European History) (2012) 13 exemplaires
revolution and environment in southern france: peasants, lords, and murder in the corbieres 1780-1830 (1999) 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1948-01-24
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 13
- Membres
- 405
- Popularité
- #60,014
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 69
- Langues
- 5
The focus on how the provinces reacted to what happened in Paris is a logical choice but because his explanation of what happened in Paris is so thin, even in terms of just the basic facts, a lot of the time you don't have the context to understand why X town is doing what it is. A lot of random stories and details about single small settlements are included but they don't form a cohesive whole or give you an understanding of how X broad area of France reacted. When useful statistics are introduced which give you an idea of opinion past anecdotes, they're still hard to interpret - for example if x% of priests in y area were non jurors, I have no idea what the size of y area is or where it is because I'm not familiar with the administrative geography of Revolutionary France!
Neither of these make the book bad exactly but I just keep feeling like I'm missing key information or it's just assumed I'll know it. There's lots of interesting stuff but I'm missing a big picture understanding of lots of stuff too… (plus d'informations)