James B. Collins Books
The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution
The historian writing about the French Revolution in 2001 faces an odd situation, because the long struggle of the Classicists and Revisionists has died down, in part because there are so few Class...
Read MoreClasses, Estates, and Order in Early Modern Brittany
This book uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early modern French society. Drawing on economic, social, and i...
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