Author: Timothy Tackett
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: revolutionary, emergence, culture, assembly, french, deputies, becoming, national
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0271028882
ISBN-13: 9780271028880

Timothy Tackett’s Becoming a Revolutionary revisits one of the most controversial moments in history: the beginning of the French Revolution. How did it arise? Why did French men and women become revolutionaries? To answer these questions, Tackett focuses on the experiences of the 1200 members of the first French National Assembly. Drawing upon on a wide range of sources, including contemporary letters and diaries, Tackett shows that the deputies were a group of practical men, whose ideas were governed more by concrete subjects than by abstract philosophy. Though it may s