Citizens

This history of the French Revolution follows the years in which a society of subjects became a nation of citizens, from the late old regime through the fall of the monarchy and the Terror. Schama gives as much space to crowd action, festival, rumor, and the body as to assemblies and ministries, and he treats violence as central to the process rather than as a late accident. Figures from Louis XVI and the deputies to sans-culottes and journalists move through Paris and the provinces. The book is a narrative political and cultural history, not a biography of one revolutionary.

Bound in quarter black buckram with crimson crushed art silk sides. Pictorial black slipcase.