Timothy Tackett (born 1945) is an American historian specializing in the French Revolution and professor emeritus at the University of California, Irvine.[1]
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His 1996 book about the members of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789 won the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association in 2001; he has also written about the Flight to Varennes[2] and the emergence of the Terror amid the turbulence of the Revolution.[3]
Works
edit- Priest & Parish in Eighteenth-Century France: A Social and Political Study of the Cures in a Diocese of Dauphine, 1750-1791, Princeton University Press, 1977, 368 p.
- La Révolution, l'Église, la France, Cerf, 1986.
- Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France: The Ecclesiastical Oath of 1791, Princeton University Press, 1986, 448 p.
- ' 'The West in France in 1789: The Religious Factor in the Origins of the Counterrevolution, Journal of Modern History 54 (1982): 715-45
- Par la volonté du peuple, comment les députés sont devenus révolutionnaires, Albin Michel, 1997.
- Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790), Princeton University Press, 1997, 355 p.
- When the King Took Flight, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Le Roi s'enfuit - Varennes et l'origine de la Terreur, Éditions La Découverte, 2004.
- Stewart J. Brown, Timothy Tackett (ed.), The Cambridge History of Christianity (vol 7): Enlightenment, Reawakening And Revolution 1660-1815, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 694 p.
- The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
- The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution, Oxford University Press, 2021.
References
edit- ^ "Vendée French call for revolution massacre to be termed 'genocide'". The Telegraph. December 26, 2008. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ Mills, Hazel (July 12, 2003). "Royal revolt". The Guardian. London. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ Zaretsky, Robert (January 12, 2015). "It's the Emotions, Stupid". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
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