Books in the Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution series

Analyzes the causes of the French Revolution not simply by investigating its "cultural origins", but by pinpointing the conditions that "made it possible because conceivable".

Both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm, and a case study on the history of French political culture. This book examines the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789, and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, and serve as a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime.

Brings together some of the research on the Revolutionary army that has been undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic by younger historians, many of whom look to the influential work of Braudel for a model.

Examines the way press reporting affected Revolutionary crises