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Book Synopsis Gilded Youth of Thermidor by : François Gendron
Download or read book Gilded Youth of Thermidor written by François Gendron and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gilded Youth of Thermidor is a historical account of the Thermidorian Reaction following the fall of Robespierre in July of 1794. François Gendron has made an exhaustive examination of the 36,000 files of the Revolutionary police to reconstruct events on the streets as they parallelled those in the Assembly and provides a picture of social and political life in Paris at the time. He describes how the sans-culottes, the lower-class radicals who had been the mainspring and vanguard of the French Revolution, were crushed, and analyses the role played by the jeunesse dorée in their defeat.
Book Synopsis Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794 by : Lindsay Porter
Download or read book Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794 written by Lindsay Porter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact of rumour during the French Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the experiences of those who lived through it. Focusing on Paris during the most radical years of the Jacobin republic, it argues that popular rumour helped to shape perceptions of the Revolution and provided communities with a framework with which to interpret an unstable world. Lindsay Porter explores the role of rumour as a phenomenon in itself, investigating the way in which the informal authority of the ‘word on the street’ was subject to a range of historical and contemporary prejudices. Drawing its conclusions from police reports and other archival sources, this study examines the potential of rumour both to unite and to divide communities, as rumour and hearsay began to play an important role in defining and judging personal commitment to the Revolution and what it meant to be a citizen.
Book Synopsis The Afterlives of the Terror by : Ronen Steinberg
Download or read book The Afterlives of the Terror written by Ronen Steinberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption that its aftermath was characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful, complex, and sometimes surprisingly honest debates about how to deal with its legacies. As The Afterlives of the Terror shows, revolutionary leaders, victims' families, and ordinary citizens argued about accountability, retribution, redress, and commemoration. Drawing on the concept of transitional justice and the scholarship on the major traumas of the twentieth century, Steinberg explores how the French tried, but ultimately failed, to leave this difficult past behind. He argues that it was the same democratizing, radicalizing dynamic that led to the violence of the Terror, which also gave rise to an unprecedented interrogation of how society is affected by events of enormous brutality. In this sense, the modern question of what to do with difficult pasts is one of the unanticipated consequences of the eighteenth century's age of democratic revolutions. Thanks to generous funding from Michigan State University and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes, available on the Cornell University Press website and other Open Access repositories.
Book Synopsis Female Beauty Systems by : Christine Adams
Download or read book Female Beauty Systems written by Christine Adams and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female beauty systems everywhere are complex, integrating markers of class, status, power, and sexuality to perform the fundamental function of sorting individuals into categories of “more” or “less” desirable. Heirs to the tradition of courtly love, modern western female beauty systems tend to share the norm of man as pursuer, woman as pursued, having developed around the trope of the madly-desiring poet or knight supplicating his aloof and lovely lady for her favor. The apparent longevity of the courtly love tradition raises the question of whether the way in which it structures male desire in reaction to female beauty is part of a “universal” tendency, an evolutionary adaptation, despite clear evidence that female beauty systems are also, in fact, socially constructed, and reflect enormous ambivalence about the power and performance of beauty. Although modern western female beauty systems are routinely demystified and contested today, the purveyors of culture that support them—institutional, intellectual, artistic, commercial, and popular—continue as they always have to construe women as objects of male desire. Still, within this basic structure, the systems have varied greatly across time and space, with women using beauty as a form of social capital in widely differing ways. Moreover, as individuals have begun to experience their bodies as malleable and endlessly transformable, rather than unruly and unyielding, many have begun to experience beauty less as a given and more as a project. The nine essays collected here examine a number of different Western female beauty systems over the centuries, considering how women have complied with, contributed to, profited or suffered from, and resisted them.
Book Synopsis Democracy in Darkness by : Katlyn Marie Carter
Download or read book Democracy in Darkness written by Katlyn Marie Carter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy Does democracy die in darkness, as the saying suggests? This book reveals that modern democracy was born in secrecy, despite the widespread conviction that transparency was its very essence. In the years preceding the American and French revolutions, state secrecy came to be seen as despotic—an instrument of monarchy. But as revolutionaries sought to fashion representative government, they faced a dilemma. In a context where gaining public trust seemed to demand transparency, was secrecy ever legitimate? Whether in Philadelphia or Paris, establishing popular sovereignty required navigating between an ideological imperative to eradicate secrets from the state and a practical need to limit transparency in government. The fight over this—dividing revolutionaries and vexing founders—would determine the nature of the world’s first representative democracies. Unveiling modern democracy’s surprisingly shadowy origins, Carter reshapes our understanding of how government by and for the people emerged during the Age of Revolutions.
Book Synopsis Schubert's Late Lieder by : Susan Youens
Download or read book Schubert's Late Lieder written by Susan Youens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of songs composed by Schubert in the final six years of his life.
Book Synopsis The French Revolution by : Louis Madelin
Download or read book The French Revolution written by Louis Madelin and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis French revolution, translated from the French by : Louis Madelin
Download or read book French revolution, translated from the French written by Louis Madelin and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journalists and the July Revolution in France by : D.L. Rader
Download or read book The Journalists and the July Revolution in France written by D.L. Rader and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women in Eighteenth Century Europe by : Margaret Hunt
Download or read book Women in Eighteenth Century Europe written by Margaret Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion, politics and warfare radically altered the lives of women. Some of these developments caused immense confusion and suffering; others greatly expanded women’s opportunities and worldview – long before the various women’s suffrage movements were more than a glimmer on the horizon. This study pays attention to queens as well as commoners; respectable working women as well as prostitutes; women physicists and mathematicians as well as musicians and actresses; feminists as well as their critics. The result is a rich and morally complex tale of conflict and tragedy, but also of achievement. The book deals with many regions and topics often under-represented in general surveys of European women, including coverage of the Balkans and both European Turkey and Anatolia, of Eastern Europe, of European colonial expansion (particularly the slave trade) and of Muslim, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish women's history. Bringing all of Europe into the narrative of early modern women's history challenges many received assumptions about Europe and women in past times, and provides essential background for dealing with issues of diversity in the Europe of today.
Book Synopsis The French Revolution by : Louis Madelin
Download or read book The French Revolution written by Louis Madelin and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Longman Companion to the French Revolution by : Colin Jones
Download or read book The Longman Companion to the French Revolution written by Colin Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides clear and comprehensive factual information across the full range of the Revolutionary period (1787-99).
Book Synopsis Stalin, an Appraisal of the Man and His Influence by : Leon Trotsky
Download or read book Stalin, an Appraisal of the Man and His Influence written by Leon Trotsky and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Witness to the Revolution by : Bette W. Oliver
Download or read book Witness to the Revolution written by Bette W. Oliver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the least likely survivors of the Jacobin purge of the National Convention in early 1793 was Jean-Baptiste Louvet, the author of the popular eighteenth-century romance Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas. Had it not been for the upheaval caused by the revolution in 1789, Louvet undoubtedly would have continued to build his promising literary career. Few of his readers could have imagined that this frail, young man would be elected as a deputy in the national assembly, where he dared to oppose powerful Jacobin leaders like Robespierre. His limited formal education and background as a bookstore clerk set Louvet apart among his legally trained friends in the Brissotin/Girondin faction; yet his intelligence, courage, and loyalty led them to appreciate his skills and friendship. Louvet would be the only one among the group to survive the proscription of the Girondins and life as a fugitive. He returned to Paris following the Jacobins’ downfall in July 1794, to serve again in the National Convention and then in the newly elected government of the Directory.
Download or read book Stalin written by Leon Trotsky and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions by : Elizabeth Webber
Download or read book Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions written by Elizabeth Webber and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students.
Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
