The Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1850

The Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1850 by Breunig, Charles. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780393053937.

The French Revolution has traditionally been viewed as a major dividing line in modern Europes history, an event which destroyed that complex line in modern Europes history, an event which destroyed that complex of political, social, legal and juridical institutions known as the "old regime" and inaugurated a new era characterized by a greater emphasis upon individual rights, the spread of representative government and the emergence of a new kind of loyalty to the nation. These generalizations about the French Revolution still retain much of their validity as long as they are qualified in some significant ways.