About the Author

Steven Laurence Kaplan is Goldwin Smith Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Four Trade during the Eighteenth Century and of the complementary work Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989, both from Cornell.

Reviews

"An excellent two-volume study, along with The Historians' Feud, of France's bicentennial commemoration of its most famous revolution... A remarkable, comprehensive account."-International Labor and Working-Class History