Option 1: Causes

Tocqueville: The Old Regime and the French Revolution and

Lefebvre: The Coming of the French Revolution and

Eisenstein: "Who Intervened in 1788? A Commentary on The Coming of the French Revolution," American Historical Review, vol. LXXI (1965) 77-103

or

Tocqueville and

Doyle: The Origins of the French Revolution

Option 2: Consequences

Cobban: The Social interpretation of the French Revolution and

Furet: Rethinking the French Revolution

or

Furet and

Hunt, L. Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution or The family romance or

Landes, J. Women and the public sphere

or

Farmer, P. France reviews its revolutionary origins and

any three of the historians he studies on July 1789, Robespierre and the Terror, and Thermidor

General areas:

Private lives: the family, childhood, leisure, birth and death

Work: workshop, factory, office

Outcasts: poverty, crime

Politics and the state: ideas about authority, the exercise of power, challenges to authority, political movements

The state system: diplomacy, wars, peace settlements

Thought: popular and "high" culture

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