The Myth Of The French Revolution
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The Myth of the French Revolution
Author | : Alfred Cobban |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105038896846 |
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The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie
Author | : Sarah Maza |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674040724 |
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Who, exactly, were the French bourgeoisie? Unlike the Anglo-Americans, who widely embraced middle-class ideals and values, the French--even the most affluent and conservative--have always rejected and maligned bourgeois values and identity. In this new approach to the old question of the bourgeoisie, Sarah Maza focuses on the crucial period before, during, and after the French Revolution, and offers a provocative answer: the French bourgeoisie has never existed. Despite the large numbers of respectable middling town-dwellers, no group identified themselves as bourgeois. Drawing on political and economic theory and history, personal and polemical writings, and works of fiction, Maza argues that the bourgeoisie was never the social norm. In fact, it functioned as a critical counter-norm, an imagined and threatening embodiment of materialism, self-interest, commercialism, and mass culture, which defined all that the French rejected. A challenge to conventional wisdom about modern French history, this book poses broader questions about the role of anti-bourgeois sentiment in French culture, by suggesting parallels between the figures of the bourgeois, the Jew, and the American in the French social imaginary. It is a brilliant and timely foray into our beliefs and fantasies about the social world and our definition of a social class.
Choosing Terror
Author | : Marisa Linton |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2013-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199576302 |
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Examines the leaders of the French Revolution - Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins - and particularly the gradual process whereby many of them came to 'choose terror', evolving from humanitarian idealists into ruthless politicians, ready to adopt the use of terror to defend the Revolution.
New Man New Nation New World
Author | : Jan Baszkiewicz |
Publsiher | : Polish Ideas in Motion. Past to Present |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433106441953 |
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In this new interpretation of the French Revolution, Jan Baszkiewicz examines revolutionary attempts to «regenerate» man, France and the world in the face of deep-seated and persistent traditions. Using a broad array of primary sources - including pamphlets, diaries, police reports, and debate protocols - Baszkiewicz analyzes the tools French revolutionaries used to build a new society on the wreckage of the Ancien Régime: Spectacular holidays, reforms in family and marriage law, general schooling, the Republican Calendar, the «liberation» of public spaces, education through work, a new religion, terror and war. In the end, the great plans for regeneration failed, though the myths that surrounded those failures lived on well into the twentieth century.
Glimpses of the French Revolution
Author | : John Goldworth Alger |
Publsiher | : London : S. Low, Marston |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B321535 |
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Modern France
Author | : Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Publsiher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2011-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195389418 |
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The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Shadows of Revolution
Author | : David Avrom Bell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190262686 |
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"David Bell wrote the essays in this collection over the course of more than fifteen years, each in response to a new book or political event and published in the New Republic, New York Review of Books, or London Review of Books. Their common thread is France and French history, of which Bell is one of the world's acknowledged experts. Shadows of Revolution is divided into seven sections: The Longue Duree; From the Old Regime to the Revolution; The Revolution; Napoleon Bonaparte; The Nineteenth Century; Vichy; and Parallels: Past and Present. Bell argues that so much of French (and European) history revolves around and returns to the French Revolution of 1789 to 1799. So much happened in so short a time that Chateaubriand later claimed that many centuries had crammed themselves into a single quarter-century. Bell's other main focus is World War Two and the French Vichy regime. He has followed the long and painful process by which the French have come to terms with their collaboration with Nazi Germany, including the creation of monuments to the Holocaust, exhibitions devoted to Vichy and the fate of the French Jews, and the speech that President Jacques Chirac gave in 1995, finally recognizing French responsibility for the deportation of Jews to the death camps. In its way, each of the essays in this collection--Bell's first book of the kind--reflects upon the ways that political and cultural patterns first set in the age of the Revolution continue to resonate, not just in France, but throughout the world"--
The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
Author | : Stephen Clarke |
Publsiher | : Arrow Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1784754374 |
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An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to oust the king, let alone guillotine him. But things quickly escalated until there was no turning back. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks at what went wrong and why France would be better off if they had kept their monarchy.