To Speak for the People: Public Opinion and the Problem of Legitimacy in the French Revolution.(Book Review)

The Historian | March 22, 2005| | Copyright

To Speak for the People: Public Opinion and the Problem of Legitimacy in the French Revolution. By Jon Cowans. (New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. 249. $90.00.)

What Keith Baker began, Jon Cowans has sought to finish. In an influential article, first published in 1987, Baker contrasted the French notion of public opinion with that of contemporary views held in North America and England. (1) Finding the French deeply suspicious of the contestatory approach acceptable in these other places, he saw the French conception of public opinion as a unity that could provide a ...

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