P.-J. Proudhon Portrait by F. T. Stuart. Boston. Scanned from ISBN 0-486-43397-8.

General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century , by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, was first published in French as Idée générale de la révolution au XIXe siècle . This is an electronic transcription of John Beverly Robinson's 1923 English translation, originally published in 1923 by Freedom Press, London. The text is based on Dover Publications' 2003 unabridged reproduction of Robinson's translation (ISBN 0-486-43397-8), with occasional typographical errors corrected.