May I also suggest: Hobsbawm’s Age of Revolution is a good diving board for casual or less academic study of the French Revolution, because it details the How and Why it’s considered important by broadening the scope of study beyond the French Revolution itself. I also really like Hobsbawm’s prose and passion.
Not a single one of them is a coherent ideology, and most aren't in any way coherent
Edit: except for based slave insurrectionists
Literally only Talleyrand is a pretty good bit, but those nerds need to go outside.
Why are the slave insurrectionists so far away from the Haitian Republican on the chart?
Plantation owners are all about freedom.
In a way that's true when it comes to "freedom means rich white monster does whatever he pleases to his slaves with no rules" ancap :brainworms: , I suppose.
