"This is the very best short history of the [French] Revolution I have come across in many decades of reading."
- Albert Guerard

"This volume represents a successful attempt to reinterpret the Revolution in the light of modern research. The author admittedly writes 'sociological history,' but let me hasten to assure any who may have developed a complex against this blend that, whether because of it or in spite of it, the quality of his history is good. His treatment is judicious. His characterization are apt. His writing is clear and vigorous with often an incisive observation that puts the issue in a new light or settles some disputed point more effectively than a page of argument."
- The American Historical Review

Contents
I. The Setting
II. The Monarchical Experiment
III. Europe and the Revolution: Peace
IV. The Republican Experiment
V. The Revolutionary Government
VI. The Republic of Virtue
VII. Europe and the Revolution: War
VIII. The Thermidoreans
IX. The Directory
X. The Arts and Sciences in Revolutionary Europe
XI. Conclusion