George Rude was one of the twentieth century's most innovative historians. His work has been translated into Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Portugese and Hungarian. He was born in Oslo in 1910 to a Norwegian father and a Scottish mother, and, after serving as a fireman in London during the Blitz and teaching in a variety of London schools, held professorships at Adelaide and Flinders universities in Australia and then at Concordia University in Montreal. He died in 1993.
'He put the mind back into history and restored the dignity of
man.'
'It may seem incredible that nobody tried before to discover what
sort of people actually stormed the Bastille, but Rude was the
first to have done so....Like all his work, this book is
concentrated, simple and clear, and admirably suited to the
non-specialist reader.'
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