Alan Forrest is Profesor of Modern History at the University of York, UK

'Gracefully written and thoughtful.' History: Review of New Books

• The revolution and provincial France; centralisation and diversity in the eighteenth century; the provinces and the crisis of the Ancien Regime; the; the spread of popular revolution; the promise of devolution; the diffusion of revolutionary poitics; revolutionary priorities in Paris and the provinces; the revolt of the provinces; Jacobinism, centralism and terror; centre and periphery under the directory; Paris and the provinces - the image of the other; the Revolution and the growth of regional identity.

Alan Forrest is Profesor of Modern History at the University of York, UK

'Gracefully written and thoughtful.' History: Review of New Books

• The revolution and provincial France; centralisation and diversity in the eighteenth century; the provinces and the crisis of the Ancien Regime; the; the spread of popular revolution; the promise of devolution; the diffusion of revolutionary poitics; revolutionary priorities in Paris and the provinces; the revolt of the provinces; Jacobinism, centralism and terror; centre and periphery under the directory; Paris and the provinces - the image of the other; the Revolution and the growth of regional identity.