Alfred Cobban
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"If we look for rational, physical causes of misfortunes instead of attributing them to witchcraft, if we accept the impersonal wage system in place of personal slavery, if we reject the torture of individuals as a means of eliciting the truth and use instead the impersonal rules of the law, if we do not regard personal salvations as so important that we are prepared to burn people in order to achieve it for them as well as for ourselves, if we do not believe that the stars are concerned with our individual fortunes, and so on, we are tacitly acknowledging the influence of the Enlightenment over our assumptions and actions."-- Aspects of the French Revolution (1968) by Alfred Cobban |
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Alfred Cobban (24 May 1901 – 1 April 1968) was an English historian and professor of French history at University College, London, who along with prominent French historian François Furet advocated a classical liberal view of the French Revolution.
Publications
- (1929). Burke and the Revolt Against the Eighteenth Century. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.
- (1934). Rousseau and the Modern State. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.
- (1939). Dictatorship, its History and Theory. London: Jonathan Cape.
- (1945). National Self-Determination. Oxford University Press.
- The Nation State and National Self-Determination. London: Fontana/Collins, 1969.
- (1946). Historians and the Causes of the French Revolution. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- (1950). The Debate on the French Revolution, 1789–1800. London: Nicholas Kaye.
- (1954). Ambassadors and Secret Agents: The Diplomacy of the First Earl of Malmesbury at the Hague. London: Jonathan Cape.
- (1954). "The history of Vichy France," in Arnold Toynbee, ed., Hitler's Europe. Oxford University Press.
- (1955). "The Myth of the French Revolution". Folcroft Library Editions.
- (1957–65). A History of Modern France:
- Volume 1: 1715–1799. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957.
- Volume 2: 1799–1945. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
- Volume 3: France of the Republics. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.
- (1960). In Search of Humanity: The Role of the Enlightenment in Modern History. London: Jonathan Cape.
- (1964). The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution. Cambridge University Press.
- (1967). The Correspondence of Edmund Burke. Cambridge University Press [with Robert Arthur Smith].
- (1968). Aspects of the French Revolution. New York: George Braziller.
- (1969). The Eighteenth Century: Europe in the Age of Enlightenment. London: Thames and Hudson.
