Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Immediate Responses
2. Nineteenth Century - The Liberal Perspective
3. Nineteenth Century - Idealist and Romantic Views
4. Nineteenth Century – Tocqueville
5. Nineteenth Century - Third Republic Historians
6. Twentieth Century - Marxist 'Orthodoxy'
7. Twentieth Century - 'Soft Revisionism'
8. Twentieth Century - 'Hard Revisionism'
9. Twentieth Century – Bicentenary Re-evaluations
Postscript
Bibliography

About the Author

Peter J. Davies is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Huddersfield