The People's Armies

By Richard Cobb

Book Overview

In this classic book, the famed historian Richard Cobb describes the Arm es R volutionnaires of eighteenth-century France and their clashes with the anti-revolutionary rural populace. In so doing, he provides important insights into the social and administrative history of the French Revolution. First published in France and now translated into English by Marianne Elliott, The People's Armies has had a profound influence on the study of the French Revolution and is still unsurpassed as a history of an important institution of the period of Revolutionary government in France.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300027281
• ISBN13: 9780300027280
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 776 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"