Eric Hobsbawm's "Echoes of the Marseillaise" might be a good place to start: it's his highly readable and very interesting review of the historiography of the Revolution, which he wrote in order to resist the Simon Schama / Francois Furet anti-Marxist revisionism associated with the bicentennaire, and will give you lots of pointers towards other literature you might enjoy.
And, for what it's worth, I agree with Justin: Tocqueville on France is superb, and sets the benchmark for just about everything that comes later.
Chris
On 22/3/04 2:51 pm, "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The classic Marxist histories of the last generation
> are Albert Soubol's The French Revolution and George
> Lefebvre's (I think that's the sp.) The Coming of the
> French Revolution. R.R. Palmer's Twelve Who Rule: A
> History of the Terror, at is a good gripping read,
> narrative history of the highest quality; the politics
> are liberal. Tocqueville is trancendent, so if you
> arewa sking whether you "have to" read him, the answer
> is no, unless you want to understand what happened.
> jks
>
>
> --- "Woodard, Jared" <JWoodard at crowell.com> wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest some good texts on the French
>> Revolution? You know,
>> something not too reactionary, maybe even
>> sympathetic to the Jacobins.
>> I kind of don't want to read de Tocqueville unless I
>> have to.
>>
>> Cheers.
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