Author: Jacques Léon GodechotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The taking of the Bastille, July 14th, 1789, tr
Author: Jacques Léon GodechotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Taking of the Bastille, July 14th 1789
Author: Jacques Léon GodechotPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571082421
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Analysis of the political, economic, social and demographic aspects of the storming of the Bastille in Paris.
The Fourteenth of July
Author: Christopher PrendergastPublisher: Profile Books(GB)
ISBN: 9781846681158
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and the beginning of the French Revolution.
The Taking of the Bastille, 14. July 1789
Author: Jacques GodechotThe Bastille
Author: Hans-Jürgen LüsebrinkPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822318941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, becoming a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime. Lüsebrink and Reichardt use this semiotic reading of the Bastille to reveal how historical symbols are generated; what these symbols’ functions are in the collective memory of societies; and how they are used by social, political, and ideological groups. To facilitate the symbolic nature of the investigation, this analysis of the evolving signification of the Bastille moves from the French Revolution to the nineteenth century to contemporary history. The narrative also shifts from France to other cultural arenas, like the modern European colonial sphere, where the overthrow of the Bastille acquired radical new signification in the decolonization period of the 1940s and 1950s. The Bastille demonstrates the potency of the interdisciplinary historical research that has characterized the end of this century, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, and taking its methodological tools from history, sociology, linguistics, and cultural and literary studies.
The Day the Bastille Fell
Author: Douglas LiversidgePublisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780531021552
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Traces the events leading to the storming of the Bastille and analyzes the significance of its fall.
The Fall of the Bastille
Author: Nathaniel HarrisPublisher: B T Batsford Limited
ISBN: 9780852196700
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Describes the storming of the Bastille fortress on July 14, 1789, and the significance of this event in the revolution that followed and in subsequent French history.
History of the French revolution, tr. by C. Cocks
Author: Jules MicheletThe history of the French revolution, tr. with notes
Author: Marie Joseph L. Adolphe ThiersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Setting the People Free
Author: John DunnPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183910
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Why does democracy—as a word and as an idea—loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid the struggles of the French Revolution. Celebrated political theorist John Dunn then charts the slow but insistent metamorphosis of democracy over the next 150 years and its apparently overwhelming triumph since 1945. He examines the differences and the extraordinary continuities that modern democratic states share with their Greek antecedents and explains why democracy evokes intellectual and moral scorn for some, and vital allegiance from others. Now with a new preface and conclusion that ground this landmark work firmly in the present, Setting the People Free is a unique and brilliant account of an extraordinary idea.