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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author: An essay on privileges, and particularly on hereditary nobility ... Translated into English, with notes, by a foreign nobleman, now in England
Author: Emmanuel Joseph SIEYÈS (Count.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The English Constitution
Author: Walter BagehotPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution-a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not feel this difficulty: he deals only with the past; he can say definitely, the Constitution worked in such and such a manner in the year at which he begins, and in a manner in such and such respects different in the year at which he ends; he begins with a definite point of time and ends with one also. But a contemporary writer who tries to paint what is before him is puzzled and a perplexed: what he sees is changing daily. He must paint it as it stood at some one time, or else he will be putting side by side in his representations things which never were contemporaneous in reality.
The French Revolution
Author: Paul Harold BeikPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349005266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution
Author: Edmund BurkeWoman, Church and State
Author: Matilda Joslyn GagePublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
“The” French Revolution
Author: Hippolyte TainePublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
History of Concepts
Author: Iain Hampsher-MonkPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053563069
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Hoewel enorm invloedrijk in Duitstalig Europa, heeft de conceptuele geschiedschrijving (Begriffsgeschichte) tot nu toe weinig aandacht in het Engels gekregen. Dit genre van intellectuele geschiedschrijving verschilt van zowel de Franse geschiedschrijving van mentalités als de Engelstalige geschiedschrijving van verhandelingen door het concept. Aan de hand van practische voorbeelden in de geschiedschrijving wordt deze vorm toegelicht door Bram Kempers, Eddy de Jongh en Rolf Reichardt.
Fire in the Minds of Men
Author: James H. BillingtonPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0765804719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.
Further Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN: 9780865970984
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A selected collection of Burke's later writings on the French Revolution, illuminating important dimensions of Burke's political and social philosophy beyond his Reflections on the revolution in France.