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Category : France
Languages : en
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French Political Pamphlets, Covering in General the Period 1830-1848
Author: French Political Pamphlets, Covering in General the Period 1848-1852
Author: The Purchase of the Past
Author: Tom StammersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478840
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.
Reynolds Pamphlet
Author: Alexander HamiltonPublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513297112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The Reynolds Pamphlet (1797) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton. Written while Hamilton was serving as Secretary of the Treasury, the Pamphlet was intended as a defense against accusations that Hamilton had conspired with James Reynolds to misuse funds meant to cover unpaid wages to Revolutionary War veterans. Admitting to an affair with Maria, Reynolds’ wife, Hamilton claims that the accusation is nothing more than an attempt at blackmail. This revelation not only endangered Hamilton’s career as a public figure, but constituted perhaps the earliest sex scandal in American history. “The bare perusal of the letters from Reynolds and his wife is sufficient to convince my greatest enemy that there is nothing worse in the affair than an irregular and indelicate amour. For this, I bow to the just censure which it merits. I have paid pretty severely for the folly and can never recollect it without disgust and self condemnation. It might seem affectation to say more.” Accused of corruption in his role as Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton was forced to confess his adultery, bringing shame to himself as a married man and supposedly honorable public figure, yet saving his political career in the process. Looking back on his affair with Maria Reynolds from a distance of five years, Hamilton expresses regret for his foolishness, yet wholeheartedly denies her husband’s accusation that he had been involved in his scheme to misuse government funds. Perhaps the first sex scandal in American history, the Reynolds affair sent shockwaves throughout the burgeoning republic, leaving many to question the motives and character of their leaders for the first time, though certainly not the last. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alexander Hamilton’s Reynolds Pamphlet is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France, 1814–1871
Author: Pamela PilbeamPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349238600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book is a fascinating survey of nineteenth-century republicanism, the first of its kind this century. It investigates why it was that although France was one of the first countries in modern Europe to become a republic in 1792, it was nearly a hundred years before a republic was acceptable to the majority. Pamela Pilbeam suggests that republicanism was a witch's brew of Enlightenment rationality, bloody memories and conflicting socialist expectations. The book concludes that the successful republic of 1871 used the rhetoric of democracy to conceal persistent elitism.
Subject Collections
Author: Lee AshPublisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Writers and Revolution
Author: Jonathan BeecherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108905234
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Focusing on the efforts of nine European intellectuals, including Tocqueville, Flaubert and Marx, to make sense of 1848, Jonathan Beecher casts a fresh and engaging perspective on the experience and impact of the Revolution, and on why, within two generations, a democratic revolution had twice culminated in the dictatorship of a Napoleon.
The Civil War in France
Author: Karl MarxPublisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Civil War in France is a pamphlet written by Karl Marx. It presents a convincing declaration of the General Council of the International, pertaining to the character and importance of the struggle of the Communards in the Paris Commune at the time.
French Socialists Before Marx
Author: Pamela M. PilbeamPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773521984
Category : Political participation
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Annotation A well-written, well-researched textbook ... provides a clear introduction to a set of key political and social themes. A valuable introduction to an unjustly ignored moment in the history of left-wing political culture.
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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