Timothy Tackett
Encyclopedia
Timothy Tackett is an American historian
specializing in the French Revolution
and professor at the University of California
. He published books about the members of the National Constituent Assembly
of 1789, and about the Flight to Varennes
.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
specializing in the French Revolution
French Revolution
The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
and professor at the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
. He published books about the members of the National Constituent Assembly
National Constituent Assembly
The National Constituent Assembly was formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789, during the first stages of the French Revolution. It dissolved on 30 September 1791 and was succeeded by the Legislative Assembly.-Background:...
of 1789, and about the Flight to Varennes
Flight to Varennes
The Flight to Varennes was a significant episode in the French Revolution during which King Louis XVI of France, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution...
.
Works
- 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.
- Le Roi s'enfuit - Varennes et l'origine de la Terreur, Éditions La Découverte, 2004.
- Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790), Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, 355 p.
- Stewart J. Brown, Thimothy Tackett (ed.), Enlightenment, Reawakening And Revolution 1660-1815, Cambridge University PressCambridge University PressCambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
, 2006, 694 p.