The French Revolution In Clifford Backman's Cultures Of The West

The French Revolution is a prominent subject for discussion in means of historical and multiple causation in Cultures of the West by Clifford Backman. Backman addresses the French Revolution as the “prime divider of European history” (Backman, p. 621), and begins to go in depth about the causes of this great revolution. As a matter of fact, Backman’s structure follows what Conal Furay described as the onion of history, peeling back one layer at a time. The author poses a question to the reader before truly touching on the plethora of causes, indirectly leading the reader to question the very nature of the French Revolution. This technique not only improves Backman’s capacity, but strongly nags at the readers interest to indulge in the reading. Once Backman has the reader hooked through questions and intriguing titles, he begins his journey at the start, with the American Revolution.
Through the American Revolution, Backman tells a compelling story on the debt, ideals, and passion transferred from one country to the next. Beginning with
Therefore, the reader has a more difficult task of being indulged into the reading through active thinking. Although, Backman makes up for his lack of questions through multiple causation and the usage of the historical categories described previously. Backman touches on every aspect of society when discussing the possible causes of the Industrial Revolution, providing the reader with an in-depth explanatory chapter on what shapes our world today. As it has been noted, Backman is an expert in multiple causation, ensuring that every possible attribute was included in describing an influential event in history. Backman may have not started on the outside of the onion, but he still executes the problematic complication of causation, through Furay’s multiple