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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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[(Anonymous)]

However, there are no "both sides", there are many sides...So, equidistance from what?

[elwen-rhiannon.livejournal.com]

Indeed. As for equidistance, I mean here taking no word for granted, when reading glorifications or condemnations, and whoever I may personally favour, being not blind to their controversial or ambigenous moves.

[(Anonymous)]

Then I must agree :-)

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Equidistance and critical reading are not the same. I find for the latter it's generally more useful to compare historians to their original sources than to each other.