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Donald M.G. Sutherland

Autor de France 1789-1815

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Fecha de nacimiento
1943
Género
male
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Donald M.G. Sutherland received his PhD in French History from the University of London in 1974. He has made his professional life’s work the study of the French Revolution. His first monograph, The Chouans: The Social Origins of Popular Counterrevolution in Upper Brittany, 1770-96 (1982), earned Honorable Mention in the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize competition of 1981-82 awarded by the Canadian Historical Association. It has been translated into French. His second monograph, France, 1789-1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution, vol. 1 of Douglas Johnson (ed.) The Fontana History of Modern France (1985) has been translated into French, Dutch, and Italian. A new version appeared in 2003. Professor Sutherland has also published twenty-seven articles, two of which won the Koren prize (1975, 1985), awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best article in French history by an American or Canadian. He has given papers to scholarly conferences around the world, has been an editor of French Historical Studies, reviews manuscripts and books for leading journals and scholarly presses, and has made a number of TV and radio appearances where he was interviewed about his work. Sutherland has also published two audio courses in the Modern Scholar Series for Recorded Books, Liberty and Its Price: Understanding the French Revolution and Napoleon and the French Empire. In 2002, the French government made him a Chevalier des palmes académiques for his contributions to French culture. He has also received awards from the National Council of Jewish Women, the Canada Council, the SSHRC, and the General Research Board, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has just completed a manuscript entitled Lynching, Law, and Justice: Murder in Aubagne. Finally,Historical Refelctions/Réflexions historiques (2003) published the papers of a major conference he organized on violence and the French Revolution at College Park in October 2001

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To me this is a passable review of the French revolution, but not something I would recommend to readers who are not historians. The author works his way from an overview of the Old Regime in the 18th century to a detailed presentation of the revolutionary years all the way to the fall of Napoleon. In principle, the book was exactly what I was looking for: an analysis of the various political twists and turns that occurred in this time of unstable upheaval.

However, although I found a few sections informative, for the most part the author's reasoning escaped my grasp. The reason for this was that I would have needed a course which explains who the Girondins, the Montagnards, the Chouans, the refractories, the conservative republicans (etc.) were, and what exactly the Directory, the Consulate, the Commune (etc.) was. In other words, the vocabulary which is used to present and discuss the actors of the French revolution is not explained at all to the uninitiated. The author just assumes that his readers already know who the different groups were and who did what to whom, so he just jumps straight into retrospective commentary. This commentary becomes quite confusing if you don't know what groups he is talking about.

Perhaps this book was simply intended for professional historians, so my layman's criticism is out of place. But even if I take that into consideration, I was still a bit disappointed by the lack of direction in the author's argument. I could not pick up many summarizing conclusions, although the general point that the revolution brought a lot of violence and suffering is certainly clear. All in all, I don't regret reading this book but it certainly isn't the ultimate presentation of the French political revolution.
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thcson | Jul 25, 2021 |
I quite enjoyed this.
The tone, the pacing all worked for me.
The narrator kept blowing air through his nose and sucking in his breathe. It was grating over the course of the book.
I think this needed editing.
It was mostly like listening to a college lecture. I like that just needed the audio cleaned up.
This author doesn't have as much info about the situation with Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette as far as their actions while under control of the government.
I don't necessarily agree with the authors findings in all cases but I like that he labels Napoleon a dictator.… (más)
 
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LoisSusan | 2 reseñas más. | Dec 10, 2020 |
Required reading from my undergrad French Revolution and Napoleon history class. Very enjoyable.
 
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ElnEm | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 13, 2006 |

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