HIST 228: The French Revolution (HC)

There are some online collections available for early modern printed texts.  They reproduce every page in a book and are searchable by word and phrase.

Some texts from the era of the French Revolution have been edited and published.  Notable titles available in print include:

Collections of primary texts in anthologies can be good for browsing. They touch on many different issues, often excerpting brief passages from full works that you can find in the tricolleges or through interlibrary loan.

Editions of sources not available in the tricolleges can be requested through interlibrary loan (See the links on this guide's first page). Use  subject terms including "sources" or "correspondence" to locate additional primary texts in Tripod and in WorldCat.

For example, the subject search france revolution 1789-1799 AND (sources OR correspondence)         produces results including:

        The Impact of the French Revolution: Texts from Britain in the 1790s. Cambridge University Press, 2005                                 

        The French Revolution  and Human Rights : A Brief History with Documents  Bedford, 2016        

Primary sources, accounts and other kinds of documents written at the time of an event or era, allow a nuanced and detailed understanding of historical issues.  Sources can take many different forms.