Author: FrancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : fr
Pages : 4
Book Description
Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen par M. Mounier
Author: FranceThe Maclure Collection of French Revolutionary Materials
Author: James D. Hardy, Jr.Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Complete catalogue and index of one of the largest collections of its kind of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic newspapers pamphlets and official publications covering the years 1789-1815. Over 20,000 listings are preceded by an introduction giving a history of the collection, a survey of other notable French Revolution collections, and a biographical essay on William S. Maclure. William S. Maclure (1763-1840) was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, a radical social reformer, and our first scientific geologist. His huge collection of French Revolutionary publications is one of the greatest libraries of its kind to be formed during the period of the Revolution. Maclure bestowed the collection on the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural Sciences in 1821, and the Academy in turn gave the collection to the Historical Society of Philadelphia, In 1949 it was acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.
The French Idea of Freedom
Author: Dale Van KleyPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804788162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
“The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789” is the French Revolution’s best known utterance. By 1789, to be sure, England looked proudly back to the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and a bill of rights, and even the young American Declaration of Independence and the individual states’ various declarations and bills of rights preceded the French Declaration. But the French deputies of the National Assembly tried hard, in the words of one of their number, not to receive lessons from others but rather “to give them” to the rest of the world, to proclaim not the rights of Frenchmen, but those “for all times and nations.” The chapters in this book treat mainly the origins of the Declaration in the political thought and practice of the preceding three centuries that Tocqueville designated the “Old Regime.” Among the topics covered are privileged corporations; the events of the three months preceding the Declaration; blacks, Jews, and women; the Assembly’s debates on the Declaration; the influence of sixteenth-century notions of sovereignty and the separation of powers; the rights of the accused in legal practices and political trials from 1716 to 1789; the natural rights to freedom of religion; and the monarchy’s “feudal” exploitation of the royal domain.
Rights, Representation, and Reform
Author: Jeremy BenthamPublisher:
ISBN: 9780199248636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Bentham's writings for the French Revolution were dominated by the themes of rights, representation, and reform. In 'Nonsense upon Stilts' (hitherto known as 'Anarchical Fallacies'), the most devastating attack on the theory of natural rights ever written, he argued that natural rights provided an unsuitable basis for stable legal and political arrangements. In discussing the nature of representation he produced the earliest utilitarian justification of political equality and representative democracy, even recommending women's suffrage.
Catalogue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dickson White: The French revolution
Author: Cornell University. Library. President White LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Catalogue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dickson White
Author: Cornell University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780947608057
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Catalogue of the Historical Library of A.D. White
Author: Negotiating the Power of the People
Author: Lucia RubinelliPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110848543X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Explores the history of the idea of constituent power over five key events, from the French Revolution to the present.
Concepts of Freedom Held by Some Leaders of the French Revolution, 1789-1792
Author: William Milton BelotePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberty
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description