The Historical Journal

Table of Contents - March 2012 - Volume 55, Issue 01  

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Review Articles

DO BOOKS MAKE REVOLUTIONS? REVISITED

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a1 CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France: between the ancients and the moderns. By Rachel Hammersley. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Pp. xi+239. ISBN 9780719079320. £60.

Cultural transfers: France and Britain in the long eighteenth century. Edited by Ann Thomson, Simon Burrows, and Edmond Dziembowski. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010. Pp. xi+326. ISBN 9780729409933. £65.

Aristocracy and its enemies in the age of revolution. By William Doyle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. viii+371. ISBN 0199559856. £30.

Overture to revolution: the 1787 Assembly of Notables and the crisis of France's old regime. By John Hardman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. vi+338. ISBN 9780199585779. £63.