Wide-Angled
Linda Colley: Global History, 26 September 2013
The French Revolution in Global Perspective
edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt and William Max Nelson.
Cornell, 240 pp., £16.50, April 2013,978 0 8014 7868 0 Show More
edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt and William Max Nelson.
Cornell, 240 pp., £16.50, April 2013,
“... for French governments to borrow themselves into ever deeper trouble. Another suggestive essay is Suzanne Desan’s discussion of the National Convention’s decision in August 1792 to make 18 distinguished foreigners honorary French citizens, and so advertise its status as ‘a congress of the whole world’. ... ”
