In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the ...
Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument ...
David A. Bell teaches French history at Princeton. His “Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present” is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Two hundred twenty-six years after ...
1. The quality that makes Jules Michelet’s history so powerful is what the French call souffle—literally, breath; figuratively, inspiration, creativity, energy. Michelet understood the French ...