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Article: The French Revolutionary Wars 1787-1802.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 1998
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The French Revolutionary Wars 1787-1802. By T. C. W. Blanning. (London and New York: Arnold, 1996. Pp. xvii, 286. $19.95.)
This reviewer is pleased that the topic in question was researched and analyzed by someone as qualified as T. C. W. Blanning. His 30 years of research on the interaction between Revolutionary France and Europe, his enormously wide reading in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian secondary literature, including all the classic works of the nineteenth century, and his use of primary material from numerous archives and published collections make this study a masterful overview.
Unlike most books of vast erudition, this ...