Author: Jack C. Censer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520056725
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822309970
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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The newspaper press was an essential aspect of the political culture of the French Revolution. Revolutionary News highlights the most significant features of this press in clear and vivid language. It breaks new ground in examining not only the famous journalists but the obscure publishers and the anonymous readers of the Revolutionary newspapers. Popkin examines the way press reporting affected Revolutionary crises and the way in which radical journalists like Marat and the Pere Duchene used their papers to promote democracy.

Author: Jack R. Censer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520336453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Author: Lynn Hunt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520931041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.

Author: Philip Dawson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674719606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Dawson contributes research findings to the historical controversy over the political motives and conduct of the upper bourgeoisie during the French Revolution, treating magistrates' activities as members of corporate groups before 1790 and following many of them as individuals through the revolutionary years to 1795.

Author: Robert Darnton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520064317
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Explains the role of printing in the French Revolution and the establishment of the revolutionary government

Author: Sarah Horowitz
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271062509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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In Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France, Sarah Horowitz brings together the political and cultural history of post-revolutionary France to illuminate how French society responded to and recovered from the upheaval of the French Revolution. The Revolution led to a heightened sense of distrust and divided the nation along ideological lines. In the wake of the Terror, many began to express concerns about the atomization of French society. Friendship, though, was regarded as one bond that could restore trust and cohesion. Friends relied on each other to serve as confidants; men and women described friendship as a site of both pleasure and connection. Because trust and cohesion were necessary to the functioning of post-revolutionary parliamentary life, politicians turned to friends and ideas about friendship to create this solidarity. Relying on detailed analyses of politicians’ social networks, new tools arising from the digital humanities, and examinations of behind-the-scenes political transactions, Horowitz makes clear the connection between politics and emotions in the early nineteenth century, and she reevaluates the role of women in political life by showing the ways in which the personal was the political in the post-revolutionary era.

Author: Robert Darnton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393314427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.

Author: James Livesey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674006249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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This book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Livesey argues that the European model of democracy was created in the Revolution, a model with very specific commitments that differentiate it from Anglo-American liberal democracy.

Author: Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271064900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.