The French statesman and historian François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) was a cold and clever politician whose refusal to grant electoral reforms precipitated the February Revolution of 1848. His scholarly publications, however, have...

Francois Furet, who had the greatest respect for Tocqueville's genius, did not shrink from calling attention to certain limitations in his attempts to explain historically how the monarchical state in France prepared the way for the French Revolution. In a 1971 article, "Tocqueville...

Dr Crossley's new book is primarily an intellectual history of major authors and texts in liberal and republican historiography from the 1820s to 1851. There are separate chapters on the historians Augustin Thierry, Francois Guizot, Edgar Quinet and Jules Michelet; a chapter on...