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While there were political disturbances elsewhere in Europe in the late eighteenth century the repercussions of a revolution in France upon the rest of the continent were bound to be immense. By the 1780s it was the most populous and powerful state in Europe, the most centralised and culturally the most advanced.
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Further Reading
Cobban, A., A History of Modern France (Penguin, 1965–6) 3 vols.
Goodwin, A., The French Revolution (Hutchinson, 1953).
Hampson, N., A Social History of the French Revolution (Routledge, 1963).
Rudé, G., The Crowd in the French Revolution (Oxford, 1959).
Rude, G., Interpretations of the French Revolution (Historical Association pamphlet G.47, 1961).
Thompson, J. M., The French Revolution (Blackwell, 1943).
Wright, D. G., Revolution and Terror in France 1789–1795 (Longman, 1974).
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Miller, S.T. (1988). The French Revolution. In: Mastering Modern European History. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19580-0_1
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