Author: John Robert VigneryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Jacobin Educational Theories and Policies in the French National Convention, 1792-1794
Author: John Robert VigneryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The Sans-Culottes
Author: Albert SoboulPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691268355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A riveting portrait of the radical and militant partisans who changed the course of the French Revolution A phenomenon of the preindustrial age, the sans-culottes—master craftsmen, shopkeepers, small merchants, domestic servants—were as hostile to the ideas of capitalist bourgeoisie as they were to those of the ancien régime that was overthrown in the first years of the French Revolution. For half a decade, their movement exerted a powerful control over the central wards of Paris and other large commercial centers, changing the course of the revolution. Here is a detailed portrait of who these people were and a sympathetic account of their moment in history.
Ancient and Modern Democracy
Author: Wilfried NippelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316565114
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Ancient and Modern Democracy is a comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate for 2,500 years, covering the features of Athenian democracy, its importance for the English, American and French revolutions and for the debates on democracy and political liberty from the nineteenth century to the present. Discussions were always in the context of contemporary constitutional problems. Time and again they made a connection with a long-established tradition, involving both dialogue with ancient sources and with earlier phases of the reception of Antiquity. They refer either to a common cultural legacy or to specific national traditions; they often involve a mixture of political and scholarly arguments. This book elucidates the complexity of considering and constructing systems of popular self-rule.
The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution
Author: David AndressPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191009911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations of academic thinking on key topics, along with stimulating and provocative interpretations and suggestions for future research directions. Placing core dimensions of the history of the French Revolution in their transnational and global contexts, the contributors demonstrate that revolutionary times demand close analysis of sometimes tiny groups of key political actors - whether the king and his ministers or the besieged leaders of the Jacobin republic - and attention to the deeply local politics of both rural and urban populations. Identities of class, gender and ethnicity are interrogated, but so too are conceptions and practices linked to citizenship, community, order, security, and freedom: each in their way just as central to revolutionary experiences, and equally amenable to critical analysis and reflection. This Handbook covers the structural and political contexts that build up to give new views on the classic question of the 'origins of revolution'; the different dimensions of personal and social experience that illuminate the political moment of 1789 itself; the goals and dilemmas of the period of constitutional monarchy; the processes of destabilisation and ongoing conflict that ended that experiment; the key issues surrounding the emergence and experience of 'terror'; and the short- and long-term legacies, for both good and ill, of the revolutionary trauma - for France, and for global politics.
The Era of the French Revolution
Author: Ronald J. CaldwellPublisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
Author: Edward James KollaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107179548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
A Selected Bibliography on Modern French History, 1600 to the Present
Author: Raymond GrewPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : Xerox University Microfilms
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
A Selected Bibliography on Modern French History, 1800 to the Present
Author: John BowditchThe French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Author: William DoylePublisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0192853961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.