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050	0	0	_aDC148 _b.S43 1990
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100	1		_aSchama, Simon
245	1	0	_aCitizens _b: a chronicle of the French Revolution _c/ Simon Schama
250			_a1st Vintage Books ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Books _c, 1990.
300			_axx, 948 p. _b: ill. _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 879-906) and index.
520			_aThis well-written, thoroughly documented book explains the self-destructive, bloody orgy that occurred in France but not in England or Prussia, countries in similar states of poverty and with similarly deprived, disenfranchised populaces. Schama theorizes that the cause of France's revolution lies in the self-deception of the ruling intelligentsia, who believed that they could make a Utopian France by allowing controlled violence, murder, and the destruction of property in the name of liberty, and all to exist simultaneously with good government.
651			_aFrance _x-History _y-Revolution, 1789-1799
942			_cMO
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