{"product_id":"2026200013288-secondhand-the-crowd-in-the-french-revolution","title":"The Crowd In The French Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the French Revolution stood not kings or generals, but the surging, volatile mass of ordinary men and women who stormed the Bastille, marched on Versailles, and drove the radical transformation of an entire civilization. George Rudé's landmark work, The Crowd in the French Revolution, presents a rigorous, ground-breaking social history that systematically identifies and analyses the individuals who constituted these revolutionary crowds — drawing on police records, court documents, and prison registers to give faces and names to those history had long left anonymous. Rudé argues compellingly that these were not mindless mobs driven by hunger and instinct, but rather purposeful political actors shaped by economic grievance, neighbourhood solidarity, and ideological conviction.\n\nA pioneering achievement in the tradition of history from below, this study fundamentally reshaped how historians understand collective action and popular politics. Rudé's meticulous, empirically grounded methodology, combined with his sharp analytical prose, illustrates the profound agency of working-class Parisians in determining the course of revolutionary events. A work that permanently altered the landscape of French revolutionary scholarship, it leaves the reader questioning just how much of history's great upheavals are authored not by the powerful, but by the powerless.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203314458843,"sku":"2026200013288-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dc4d9597-abcd-4263-949a-8d7d8661f7eb.png?v=1788147788","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013288-secondhand-the-crowd-in-the-french-revolution","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}