HIST 462, French Revolution (Brown): Reference works

Textbook including study aids such as a chronology, who's who, glossary and a selection of translated primary documents - use Read Online link on the right to view maps and chronology in the book's front matter.

Entries on French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many more.

Historiographic essays on many aspects of the French Revolution.

Edited volume of essays reassessing the origins, development, and impact of the French Revolution from leading historians, including six essays translated from French.

In The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Regime, an international team of 30 contributors surveys and presents current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe. The idea of the Ancien Regime was invented by the French revolutionaries to define what they hoped to destroy and replace. But it was not a precise definition, and although historians have found it conceptually useful, there is wide disagreement about what the Ancien Regime's main features were, howthey worked, how old they were, how far they stretched, how dynamic or inert they were, and how far the revolutionaries succeeded in their ambitions to eradicate them.

Zachary Schrag begins by explaining how to ask good questions and then guides readers step-by-step through all phases of historical research, from narrowing a topic and locating sources to taking notes, crafting a narrative, and connecting one's work to existing scholarship.