Crisis and Revolution: Interpreting France in the 1780's

最近的研究削弱了关于法国大革命起源的旧理论，但修正主义尚未提出符合最新研究的令人信服的解释。这本关于“危机与革命”的书提供了一种新的解释，它借鉴了社会学的辩论和见解，但坚定地立足于档案和当时重要的小册子出版物中最近的历史研究背景。它认为，危机不是革命的导火线，而是对问题产生了至关重要的变革影响，为巴洛克式的国家造成了难以控制的局面。

Recent research has undermined older theories of the origins of the French Revolution but revisionism has not yet produced a convincing interpretation that fits the latest research. This book on 'Crisis and revolution' offers a new interpretation that draws upon debates and insights from Sociology but rests firmly in the context of recent historical research both in the archives and on the important pamphlet publications of the time. It argues that crisis rather than being a precipitant of revolution had a vital transformative effect upon the issues, producing an unmanageable situation for the baroque state.