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Article: Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- April 1, 2000
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Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France, edited by Christine Adams, Jack R. Censer, and Lisa Jane Graham. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. viii, 214 pp. $16.95.
This volume consists of selected papers presented at The Johns Hopkins University in 1994 to honor Robert Forster, an eminent American scholar of the French Revolution era. The intention of the editors was to introduce the reader to some recent scholarship on eighteenth-century French history, reflecting methodological and theoretical changes past the Annales and Marxist approaches. Central to this scholarship is the idea that the eighteenth century was ...