Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226805290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work.
The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226805306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work.
Night the Old Regime Ended
Author: Michael P. FitzsimmonsPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 7
Author: Keith M. BakerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226069500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.
Feudalism, venality, and revolution
Author: Stephen MillerPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526148366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king’s government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis De TocquevillePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226805336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Author: Robert DarntonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674536579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. By drawing on an ingenious selection of previously hidden sources, he reveals for the first time the fascinating story of this eighteenth-century counterculture that has virtually disappeared from history.
The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
Author: Malick W. GhachemPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521836808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A provocative history of Haiti up to 1804, when Haitians became the first formerly enslaved people to overthrow a colonial slaveholding power.
Tocqueville Unveiled
Author: Robert T. GannettPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226281086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Drawing on his unprecendented access to Tocqueville's papers, Robert T. Gannett Jr reveals the ingenuity of Tocqueville's analyses of issues such as landownership, administrative centralization, and public opinion in pre-reolutionary France.