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Article: Living the French Revolution, 1789-99.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- December 22, 2008
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Living the French Revolution, 1789-99. By Peter McPhee (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. x plus 319 pp. $74.95).
It is not uncommon to hear historians of the French Revolution lament the absence of a reigning paradigm for the 1989 bicentennial marked the last moment of true interpretive synthesis. Afterward, the historiography fragmented as sweeping analyses of the Revolution's causes and consequences gave way to monographs and narrative. That this has heen a positive development is attested by Living the French Revolution, which highlights how multifaceted is our knowledge of common people's lives at the end of the eighteenth century. Mining the ...