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Book Review: Strength through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich

centrality of violence, as well as the economic winners and losers. Finally, Part IV places the Revolution in its European and international context, devoting space to émigrés and colonists. As such, Aston offers a broader perspective than provided in many other textbooks. Such a focus also highlights the plight of those not pleased by the events of 1789. Choice quotations from outside observers (mostly British) enliven the text throughout and help to emphasize the European fascination with the Revolution. Aston deliberately avoids extensive engagement with historiographical debate, rightly noting that students can find specialized introductions elsewhere, such as William Doyle, Origins of the French Revolution (Oxford, 1999). Although this gives a welcome freshness to the text, such an approach sometimes leads to an overly bracing perspective: we learn of the historical importance of the Terror though Arnold Meyer alone, and revisionists such as Simon Schama and François Furet easily outweigh the orthodox Georges Lefebvre or Michel Vovelle. Those, such as Patrice Higonnet, who attempt to discern a liberal sensibility in the Revolution are presented as subtle but wishful thinkers, who avoid confronting the sanguinary excesses unleashed by liberty. ‘Class’, needless to say, does not even make an appearance in the index (where, curiously, the Marxist Albert Soboul is elevated to the status of a listing by surname alone). This said, the introduction neatly and mordantly outlines the current state of revolutionary research, and there is an extensive, annotated and up-to-date bibliography; historical debates are incisively dispatched where they appear in the narrative and analytical flow. Readers are treated to two good maps (of the boundaries and pays of France in 1789 and of French expansion in Europe after 1791), but one wishes for more, such as a map of France’s new administrative organisation or of her overseas’ colonies. The other scholarly apparatuses consist of a timeline (which would have benefited from an explanation of the Revolutionary Calendar) and a helpful but brief glossary. There are the occasional puzzling moments, such as the assertion that the Bastille was demolished on 14 July 1789 (22), which may mislead some into thinking the fortress was destroyed rather than stormed on that date. Read alongside, say, Peter McPhee, The French Revolution, 1789–1799 (Oxford, 2001) – certainly not the work of a counter-revolutionary – this book will introduce able students to the Janus-like qualities of the Revolution, and perhaps inspire them to begin their own 30-year journey.