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A Guide to Further Reading in English
革命前、十八世紀法國社會面貌
The best introduction to eighteenth-century France is Daniel Roche, France in the Enlightenment, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge, Mass., 1998).
An enormous amount may be learned about French society as a whole from
John McManners, Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1998).
Local studies permit a closer approach to French society; among them are
Robert Forster, The Nobility of Toulouse in the Eighteenth Century (Baltimore, 1971), and
The House of Saulx-Tavanes: Versailles and Burgundy 1700–1830 (Baltimore, 1977);
Daniel Roche, The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century, trans. Marie Evans (Berkeley, Calif., 1987);
Thomas Sheppard, Lourmarin in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of a French Village (Baltimore, 1971);
Olwen Hufton, Bayeux in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Social Study (Oxford, 1967);
John McManners, French Ecclesiastical Society under the Ancien Régime (Manchester, 1960); Patrice Higonnet, Pont-de-Montvert: Social Structure and Politics in a French Village, 1700– 1914 (Cambridge, Mass., 1971), and
Liana Vardi, The Land and the Loom: Peasants and Profit in Northern France 1680–1800 (Durham, NC, 1993).
The crucial roles of women in household work strategies are discussed in
Olwen Hufton’s important The Prospect before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500–1800 (New York, 1996).
革命之起源
Debates on the origins of the Revolution are summarized from a non- Marxist or ‘revisionist’ perspective in
William Doyle, Origins of the French Revolution, 2nd edn. (Oxford, 1980),
while Colin Jones synthesizes a mass of recent research into an effective riposte in
Colin Lucas (ed.), Rewriting the French Revolution (Oxford, 1991).
The continuity of attempts at reform is stressed by
Peter Jones, Reform and Revolution in France: The Politics of Transition, 1774–1791 (Cambridge, 1995).
Increasing attention has been paid to the cultural origins of the Revolution, well summarized in
Roger Chartier, The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (Durham, NC, 1991);
Emmet Kennedy, A Cultural History of the French Revolution (New Haven, 1989); and the deservedly influential work of
Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York, 1984), and
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (Cambridge, Mass., 1982).
對革命歷史嘅唔同敘事理解
Forty years after its publication in French, the classic Marxist narrative by
Albert Soboul, The French Revolution 1787–1799: From the Storming of the Bastille to Napoleon, trans. Alan Forrest and Colin Jones (London, 1989)
remains a powerful, cohesive analysis.
Very different in tone is the detailed political history by
William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (Oxford, 1989); here international affairs and counter-revolution are properly emphasized.