Eventlessness
Norman Hampson, 19 April 1984
France 1815-1914: The Bourgeois Century
by Roger Magraw.
Fontana, 412 pp., £4.95, November 1983,0 00 635741 5 Show More
by Roger Magraw.
Fontana, 412 pp., £4.95, November 1983,
“... may have had a tidy mind, but one has doubts about his methodology. On all of these counts Roger Magraw’s book invites serious reservations. He is not much interested in events. His treatment of the 1830 revolution is typical. ‘In July 1830 three days of Parisian street fighting sufficed to overthrow the Bourbons. Analysis of the sources of ... ”
