The book then plunges into the Wars of the French Revolution, well-trodden ground. Jarrett does good work in presenting the disconnect between the war plans that the British wanted to implement ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

If world politics today is changing worlds, it was no less so in late 18th century Britain; there was the American War of ...

Lethière (1760–1832) was, until the Clark and the Louvre joined in this show to survey his career, an unremembered history painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the ...