Bibliography of the French Revolution

The following bibliography includes sources concerning the French Revolution.

Surveys and reference

 * Andress, David, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2015). excerpt, 714 pp; 37 articles by experts
 * Aulard, François-Alphonse. The French Revolution, a Political History, 1789–1804 (4 vol. 1910); famous classic; volume 1 1789–1792 online; Volume 2 1792–95 online
 * Azurmendi, Joxe (1997). The democrats and the violent. Mirande's critique of the French Revolution. Philosophical viewpoint. (Original: Demokratak eta biolentoak, Donostia: Elkar ISBN 978-84-7917-744-7).
 * Ballard, Richard. A New Dictionary of the French Revolution (2011) excerpt and text search
 * Bosher, J.F. The French Revolution (1989) 365 pp
 * Davies, Peter. The French Revolution: A Beginner's Guide (2009), 192 pp
 * Gershoy, Leo. The French Revolution and Napoleon (1945) 585 pp
 * Gershoy, Leo. The Era of the French Revolution, 1789–1799 (1957), brief summary with some primary sources
 * Gottschalk, Louis R. The Era of the French Revolution (1929), cover 1780s to 1815
 * Hanson, Paul R. The A to Z of the French Revolution (2013)
 * Hanson, Paul R. Historical dictionary of the French Revolution (2015) online
 * ; inspiration for Soboul and Lefebvre, one of the most important accounts of the Revolution in terms of shaping perspectives;
 * Jones, Colin. The Longman Companion to the French Revolution (1989)
 * Jones, Colin. The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002) excerpt and text search
 * Madelin, Louis. The French Revolution (1916); textbook by leading French scholar. online
 * Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution (1987), 234 pp; hundreds of short entries.
 * Popkin, Jeremy D. A Short History of the French Revolution (5th ed. 2009) 176 pp
 * Scott, Samuel F. and Barry Rothaus, eds. Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789–1799 (2 vol 1984), short essays by scholars vol. 1 online ; vol 2 online
 * Sutherland, D.M.G. France 1789–1815. Revolution and Counter-Revolution (2nd ed. 2003, 430 pp excerpts and online search from Amazon.com
 * Scott, Samuel F. and Barry Rothaus, eds. Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789–1799 (2 vol 1984), short essays by scholars vol. 1 online ; vol 2 online
 * Sutherland, D.M.G. France 1789–1815. Revolution and Counter-Revolution (2nd ed. 2003, 430 pp excerpts and online search from Amazon.com

European and Atlantic history

 * Amann, Peter H., ed. The eighteenth-century revolution: French or Western? (Heath, 1963) readings from historians
 * Brinton, Crane. A Decade of Revolution 1789–1799 (1934) the Revolution in European context
 * Desan, Suzanne, et al. eds. The French Revolution in Global Perspective (2013)
 * Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. ed. The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History (ABC-CLIO: 3 vol 2006)
 * Goodwin, A., ed.  The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 8: The American and French Revolutions, 1763–93 (1965), 764 pp
 * Palmer, R.R. "The World Revolution of the West: 1763–1801," Political Science Quarterly (1954) 69#1 pp. 1–14
 * Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800. (2 vol 1959), highly influential comparative history; vol 1 online
 * Rude, George F. and Harvey J. Kaye. Revolutionary Europe, 1783–1815 (2000), scholarly survey excerpt and text search

Politics and wars

 * Andress, David. The terror: Civil war in the French revolution (2006).
 * ed. Baker, Keith M. The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture (Oxford, 1987–94) vol 1: The Political Culture of the Old Regime, ed. K.M. Baker (1987); vol. 2: The Political Culture of the French Revolution, ed. C. Lucas (1988); vol. 3: The Transformation of Political Culture, 1789–1848, eds. F. Furet & M. Ozouf (1989); vol. 4: The Terror, ed. K.M. Baker (1994). excerpt and text search vol 4
 * Blanning, T.C.W. The French Revolutionary Wars 1787–1802 (1996).
 * Desan, Suzanne. "Internationalizing the French Revolution," French Politics, Culture & Society (2011) 29#2 pp. 137–60.
 * Doyle, William. Origins of the French Revolution (3rd ed. 1999) online edition
 * Englund, Steven. Napoleon: A Political Life. (2004). 575 pp; emphasis on politics excerpt and text search
 * Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. The French Revolutionary Wars (2013), 96 pp; excerpt and text search
 * Griffith, Paddy. The Art of War of Revolutionary France 1789–1802, (1998); 304 pp; excerpt and text search
 * Hardman, John. Louis XVI: The Silent King (2nd ed. 2016) 500 pp; much expanded new edition; now the standard scholarly biography; (1st ed. 1994) 224; older scholarly biography
 * Schroeder, Paul. The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848. 1996; Thorough coverage of diplomatic history; hostile to Napoleon; online edition

Economy and society

 * Anderson, James Maxwell. Daily life during the French Revolution (2007)
 * Andress, David. French Society in Revolution, 1789–1799 (1999)
 * Kennedy, Emmet. A Cultural History of the French Revolution (1989)
 * McPhee, Peter. "The French Revolution, Peasants, and Capitalism," American Historical Review (1989) 94#5 pp. 1265–80
 * Tackett, Timothy, "The French Revolution and religion to 1794," and Suzanne Desan, "The French Revolution and religion, 1795–1815," in Stewart J. Brown and Timothy Tackett, eds. The Cambridge History of Christianity vol. 7 (Cambridge UP, 2006).

Women

 * Dalton, Susan. "Gender and the Shifting Ground of Revolutionary Politics: The Case of Madame Roland." Canadian journal of history (2001) 36#2
 * Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution (1998) 440 pp 1998
 * Hufton, Olwen. "Women in Revolution 1789–1796" Past & Present (1971) No. 53 pp. 90–108
 * Kelly, Linda. Women of the French Revolution (1987) 192 pp. biographical portraits or prominent writers and activists
 * Landes, Joan B. Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1988) excerpt and text search
 * Melzer, Sara E., and Leslie W. Rabine, eds. Rebel daughters: women and the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1992)
 * Proctor, Candice E. Women, Equality, and the French Revolution (Greenwood Press, 1990) online
 * Roessler, Shirley Elson. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789–95 (Peter Lang, 1998) online

Historiography and memory

 * Andress, David. "Interpreting the French Revolution," Teaching History (2013), Issue 150, pp. 28–29, very short summary
 * Censer, Jack R. "Amalgamating the Social in the French Revolution." Journal of Social History 2003 37(1): 145–50. online
 * Cox, Marvin R. The Place of the French Revolution in History (1997) 288 pp
 * Desan, Suzanne. "What's after Political Culture? Recent French Revolutionary Historiography," French Historical Studies (2000) 23#1 pp. 163–96.
 * Furet, François and Mona Ozouf, eds. A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (1989), 1120 pp; long essays by scholars; strong on history of ideas and historiography (esp pp. 881–1034 excerpt and text search
 * Furet, François. Interpreting the French revolution (1981).
 * Germani, Ian, and Robin Swayles. Symbols, myths and images of the French Revolution. University of Regina Publications. 1998. ISBN 978-0-88977-108-6
 * Geyl, Pieter. Napoleon for and Against (1949), 477 pp; summarizes views of major historians on controversial issues
 * Hanson, Paul R. Contesting the French Revolution (2009). 248 pp.
 * Kafker, Frank A. and James M. Laux, eds. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations (5th ed. 2002), articles by scholars
 * Kaplan, Steven Laurence. Farewell, Revolution: The Historians' Feud, France, 1789/1989 (1996), focus on historians excerpt and text search
 * Kaplan, Steven Laurence. Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989 (1995); focus on bitter debates re 200th anniversary excerpt and text search
 * Kates, Gary, ed. The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies (2nd ed. 2005) excerpt and text search
 * Landes, Joan B. 1991. “More than Words: The Printing Press and the French Revolution.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 25: 85–98.
 * Lewis, Gwynne. The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate (1993) online ; 142 pp.
 * ; 540 pp; 30 essays by experts; emphasis on historiography and memory
 * Reichardt, Rolf: The French Revolution as a European Media Event, European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2010, retrieved: 17 December 2012.
 * Ross, Steven T., ed. The French Revolution: conflict or continuity? (1971) 131 pp; excerpt from historians table of contents