Blanning, The French Revolution - Class War Or Culture Clash?

Abstract

T.C.W. Blanning's The French Revolution: Aristocrats versus Bourgeois? first appeared in 1987. In his second edition, the subtitle has been changed to Class War or Culture Clash? The difference shows the dramatic evolution in French Revolution and Ancien Regime scholarship over the course of the past decade. Fortunately the excellence of Blanning's survey has not changed, nor has its usefulness for the college classroom.