Author: Simon Nicolas Henri LinguetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Memoirs of the Bastille
Author: Simon Nicolas Henri LinguetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France
Author: Nicole BauerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031122364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government transparency. The idea of keeping secrets, both on the part of individuals and on the part of governments, came to be viewed with more suspicion as the century progressed. By the eve of the French Revolution, writers voicing concerns about corruption saw secrecy as part and parcel of despotism, and this shift went hand in hand with the rise of the idea of transparency. The author argues that the emphasis placed on government transparency, especially the mania for transparency that dominated the French Revolution, resulted from the surprising connections and confluence of changing attitudes towards honour, religious movements, rising nationalism, literature, and police practices. Exploring religious ideas that associated secrecy with darkness and wickedness, and proto-nationalist discourse that equated foreignness with secrecy, this book demonstrates how cultural shifts in eighteenth-century France influenced its politics. Covering the period of intense fear during the French Revolution and the paranoia of the Reign of Terror, the book highlights the complex interplay of culture and politics and provides insights into our attitudes towards secrecy today.
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Author: The Library World
Author: Library World
Author: New Library World
Author: Origins of the French Revolution
Author: William DoylePublisher:
ISBN: 0198731744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The revised and updated 3rd edition of the Origins of the French Revolution emphasises the Revolution's social & economic origins & critically appraises the results of a new generation of research findings and interpretation.
Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760-1815
Author: Gregory Fremont-BarnesPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 0313334455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Covers the people, events, and ideas that shaped the transformative political ideologies arising from the American and French Revolutions.
Libertine Enlightenment
Author: L. O'ConnellPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230522815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Sex in the Eighteenth-century was not simply a pleasure; it had profound philosophical and political implications. This book explores those implications, and in particular the links between sexual freedom and liberty in a variety of European and British contexts. Discussing prostitutes and politicians, philosophers and charlatans, confidence tricksters and novelists, Libertine Enlightenment presents a fascinating overview of the sexual dimension of enlightened modernity.
Old and New Paris
Author: Henry Sutherland EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description