| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

From Yorktown to Valmy: The Transformation of the French Army in the Age of Revolution. By Samuel F. Scott. (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1998. xvi, 251 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87081-504-0.)

For several decades it has been the fashion to take a comparative approach to the several political upheavals clustered around the end of the eighteenth century—what are sometimes spoken of as the "Atlantic" revolutions. No two of those episodes have invited comparison as much as those that produced American independence and toppled the French monarchy; at the same time, the possible role of the first of those revolutions in helping trigger the second has been considerably explored. Most historians have been inclined to look for a transfusion of revolutionary ideas through the traditional conduits: books, tracts, and correspondence passing from one intellectual community to the other. . . .

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