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On the Enlightenment, Revolution & Modernity
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man
- A. Forrest ”The French Revolution” (1995)
- Bailey ”Birth of the Modern World” Chapters 1 to 3
- Bernard Bailyn ”The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”
- C. Jones ”The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, 1715-99” (2002) Chapter 5
- C. Jones ”The Great Nation” Chapters 8-11
- D. Andress ”French Society in Revolution 1789-99” (1999)
- D. Goodman ”History and Theory” (1992) ‘Public sphere and private life’
- D. Goodman ”The Republic of Letters” (1994)
- D. Outran ”The Enlightenment” (1995)
- D. Roche ”France in the Enlightenment “(1998)
- D. Roche and R. Darnton (ends) ”Revolution in Print” (1989)
- D. van Kley (ed.) ”The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789” (1994)
- E.J. Hobsbawm ”The Age of Revolution” (1988) Introduction (especially pp 17-21), Chapter 1, Chapter 3 : The French Revolution (pp 74-100), Chapter 4, Chapter 6 : Revolutions, mainly 1848 (pp 137-162)
- G. Best (ed.) ”The Permanent Revolution: The French Revolution and its Legacy 1789-1989” (1988)
- G. Lewis ”The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate (“1993”)”
- Gordon Wood ”The Radicalism of the American Revolution”
- J. Bender ”Eighteenth-Century Life” (1992) ‘A New History of the Enlightenment?’
- J. Habermas ”The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” (1989)
- J. Sweetman ”The Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution”, 1700-1850 (1998)
- Jonathan Israel ”The Radical Enlightenment” (2001) (Part 1 pp.1-154)
- K. Baker ”Inventing the French Revolution” (1990)
- M. Jacob In “Social Research” (1991) ‘Enlightenment redefined’
- M. Ozouf In “Journal of Modern History” (supplement, 1988) ‘Public Opinion at the End of the Enlightenment’
- Michel Foucault in P. Rabinow (ed.), “The Foucault Reader” (1986, 91) ‘What is enlightenment’
- N. Hampson ”The Enlightenment” (1968)
- P. Gay ”The Enlightenment: An Interpretation” (1967, 77)
- P. Hamilton: In S. Hall and B Gieben (eds), “Formations of Modernity” (1992) “The Enlightenment and the Birth of Social Science”
- Patrice Higonnet ”Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism” (1988)
- R. Chartier ”Cultural origins of the French Revolution”, (1991) Chapter 2
- Raymond Williams in “Keywords” (1976, 1988) – see ‘Revolution’, ‘Progressive’ and ‘Rational’
- Robert Danton ”George Washington’s False teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth century” (2003)
- Roy Porter ”The Enlightenment “(2001 edn)
- Roy Porter & M. Teich (eds.) ”The Enlightenment in National Context” (1981)
- Roy Porter and M. Teich ”Revolution in History” (1986) Especially chapters 1 and 13
- Susan Dunn ”Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light”?(1999)
- T. Kuhn ”The Scientific Revolution” (1962, 70)
- W. Doyle ”Oxford History of the French Revolution” (1998)
- W. Doyle ”Old Régime France” (2001)