Let Them Have Debt: Money and the French Revolution
Spang’s Stuff and Money makes a powerful argument that politics and the economy were intimately linked in determining the French Revolution’s course.
Patrick Hyde
Patrick Hyde is a graduate student in the University of Houston’s History program.
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Did Contraband Smuggling Lead to the French Revolution?
Michel Kwass on the populist history of smuggling contraband goods - tobacco and calico - in France before the French Revolution.