Down with Weathercocks
Tom Stammers: Mother Revolution, 30 November 2017
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
by Peter McPhee.
Yale, 468 pp., £14.99, July 2017,978 0 300 22869 4 Show More
by Peter McPhee.
Yale, 468 pp., £14.99, July 2017,
“... that the text disappeared beneath the interpretation.’By contrast, the great merit of Peter McPhee’s new synthesis is the weight it gives to the earthy, even mundane, aspects of revolutionary experience. It examines 1789 from the peripheries, rather than Paris, as seen through the eyes of the menu peuple, rather than from the heights of the ... ”