The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution.

This book revisits and analyses the early French Revolution's epic struggle against the Bourbon monarchy and its symbolic culture.

The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and