Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when
the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the
ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins
with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It
considers the tendency to revolution and war, the preoccupation
with the idea of a New Order and the deep strain of national
paranoia that was to be intensified by the dramatic debacle of the
Franco-Prussian War. Robert Tombs then investigates the structures
of power and in Part Three he turns his attention to social
identities, from the individual and family to the nation at large.
When every aspect of the period has been put under the microscope,
Robert Tombs draws them all into the broad political narrative that
brings the book to its rousing conclusion. Bursting with life as
well as learning, this is, quite simply, a tour de force.
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