Peter McPhee (1) (1948–)
Autor de Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
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Sobre El Autor
Peter McPhee is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne
Obras de Peter McPhee
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1948-01-24
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugares de residencia
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Miembros
- 402
- Popularidad
- #60,416
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 69
- Idiomas
- 5
The focus on how the provinces reacted to what happened in Paris is a logical choice but because his explanation of what happened in Paris is so thin, even in terms of just the basic facts, a lot of the time you don't have the context to understand why X town is doing what it is. A lot of random stories and details about single small settlements are included but they don't form a cohesive whole or give you an understanding of how X broad area of France reacted. When useful statistics are introduced which give you an idea of opinion past anecdotes, they're still hard to interpret - for example if x% of priests in y area were non jurors, I have no idea what the size of y area is or where it is because I'm not familiar with the administrative geography of Revolutionary France!
Neither of these make the book bad exactly but I just keep feeling like I'm missing key information or it's just assumed I'll know it. There's lots of interesting stuff but I'm missing a big picture understanding of lots of stuff too… (más)