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[mersirena.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone! I was wondering if anyone could recommend the best, most informative non-fiction books on the French Revolution. I'll be purchasing several, as I need a broad range of topics, from music and art, to politics and economics. I browsed through quite a few entries, but I mostly found recommendations for novels and the like.

Thanks in advance!

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[mersirena.livejournal.com]

They must be in English - I don't speak or understand French.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

That gives you less options, but it does make it easier to compile a list. I would recommend anything by Timothy Tackett, J-P Gross's Fair Shares for All, Marie-Hélène Huet's Mourning Glory, Isser Woloch's "The New Regime." I would give a somewhat qualified recommendation to Whaley's Radicals and R. R. Palmer as well. Also, read Mathiez, Lefebvre, Soboul, Vovelle, Bouloiseau in translation. And I would recommend E. Hobsbawm for historiography as well, though he does get a bit dry and go on a bit long on the Soviet Union for my taste.