The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France analyses the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Focusing on bourgeois men

Nineteenth-century France grew fascinated with the local past. Thousands of citizens embraced local archaeology, penned historical vignettes and monographs, sta

The classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French Revolution The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential

How a nation educates its children tells us much about the values of its people. From the Salon to the Schoolroom examines the emerging secondary school system

The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 evaluates th