Carolina Armenteros is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Wolfson College. She specialises in European social and political thought ca. 1748-1914, with a special emphasis on France.Dawn Dodds; Coming from a multi-disciplinary background of History, Political Science, and Philosophy, Dawn Dodds's graduate-level research has focused on themes of political violence, dissent, legitimacy and the institutionalization of authority.Isabel DiVanna is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Her graduate level research has focused on philosophy of history and methodology of historical and literary studies in late nineteenth-century France.Tim Blanning is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. He has published extensively on the political and cultural history of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is also general editor of The Oxford History of Europe and The Short Oxford History of Europe.

The essays in this absorbing volume are in large part the work of a young new generation of historians, and they show how thinking about the French Revolution has evolved over the two decades since the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989. The Revolution emerges as a continuing vital force shaping modern political culture, within France and without. The volume will be compulsory reading for all historians concerned with the origins of the modern era.- Colin Jones, author, The Great Nation. France 1715-99.This is an innovative and important collection of essays at the cutting-edge of recent scholarship on the French Revolution.- Ruth Scurr, author, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution.The French Revolution is not over, as François Furet famously declared on its bicentenary, for its history is still a source of intense and wide-ranging debate.

The innovatory studies published here, initially presented at a Cambridge conference, explore the meaning of the Revolution rather than its events. The authors, mostly young scholars from Europe and America, demonstrate that research into the subject remains both extremely lively and highly relevant.- Malcolm Crook, editor, Revolutionary France 1780-1880This is a substantial volume of essays, with some thought-provoking contributions being especially noteworthy as many of the authors are still (or were at the time of writing) completing their doctorates. [.] [It will] certainly merit the attention of anyone interested in the continuing historical legacy of 1789.- David Andress, University of Portsmouth, European History Quarterly, 41 (2).