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Book Synopsis Understanding the French Revolution by : Albert Soboul
Download or read book Understanding the French Revolution written by Albert Soboul and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen fascinating essays on many aspects of the French Revolution. Soboul was chair of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne for many years until his death in 1982. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Brief biography of the author.
Book Synopsis An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution by : Mary Wollstonecraft
Download or read book An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The French Revolution in Global Perspective by : Suzanne Desan
Download or read book The French Revolution in Global Perspective written by Suzanne Desan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion. The essays examine topics including the role of smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire. The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms-at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing-were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues. Contributors: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University; Ian Coller, La Trobe University; Denise Davidson, Georgia State University; Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Jainchill, Queen's University; Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University; William Max Nelson, University of Toronto; Pierre Serna, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona; Charles Walton, Yale University
Book Synopsis The French Revolution by : Ian Davidson
Download or read book The French Revolution written by Ian Davidson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in Versailles. There, the nobles, clergy and commoners of France had just declared themselves a republic, toppling a rotten system of aristocratic privilege and altering the course of history forever. The Revolution was led not by angry mobs, but by the best and brightest of France's growing bourgeoisie: young, educated, ambitious. Their aim was not to destroy, but to build a better state. In just three months they drew up a Declaration of the Rights of Man, which was to become the archetype of all subsequent Declarations worldwide, and they instituted a system of locally elected administration for France which still survives today. They were determined to create an entirely new system of government, based on rights, equality and the rule of law. In the first three years of the Revolution they went a long way toward doing so. Then came Robespierre, the Terror and unspeakable acts of barbarism. In a clear, dispassionate and fast-moving narrative, Ian Davidson shows how and why the Revolutionaries, in just five years, spiralled from the best of the Enlightenment to tyranny and the Terror. The book reminds us that the Revolution was both an inspiration of the finest principles of a new democracy and an awful warning of what can happen when idealism goes wrong.
Book Synopsis The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by : William Doyle
Download or read book The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction written by William Doyle and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A People's History of the French Revolution by : Eric Hazan
Download or read book A People's History of the French Revolution written by Eric Hazan and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new history of the French Revolution from the standpoint of the peasants, workers, women and sans culottes The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat—the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical imagination for more than 200 years. It has been a template for heroic insurrection and, to more conservative minds, a cautionary tale. In the hands of Eric Hazan, author of The Invention of Paris, the revolution becomes a rational and pure struggle for emancipation. In this new history, the first significant account of the French Revolution in over twenty years, Hazan maintains that it fundamentally changed the Western world—for the better. Looking at history from the bottom up, providing an account of working people and peasants, Hazan asks, how did they see their opportunities? What were they fighting for? What was the Terror and could it be justified? And how was the revolution stopped in its tracks? The People’s History of the French Revolution is a vivid retelling of events, bringing them to life with a multitude of voices. Only in this way, by understanding the desires and demands of the lower classes, can the revolutionary bloodshed and the implacable will of a man such as Robespierre be truly understood.
Book Synopsis The Coming of the French Revolution by : Georges Lefebvre
Download or read book The Coming of the French Revolution written by Georges Lefebvre and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history "from below"—a Marxist approach. Here, he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.
Book Synopsis The French Revolution: From its origins to 1793 by : Georges Lefebvre
Download or read book The French Revolution: From its origins to 1793 written by Georges Lefebvre and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern France by : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Download or read book Modern France written by Vanessa R. Schwartz and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793 by :
Download or read book The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 by : Albert Soboul
Download or read book A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 written by Albert Soboul and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Marxist analysis of the causes and course of the French Revolution argues that it can be understood, on all levels, only in terms of class struggle.
Book Synopsis Ending the French Revolution by : Howard G. Brown
Download or read book Ending the French Revolution written by Howard G. Brown and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Filled with critical insights, Brown's revisionist study utilizes an impressive array of archival sources, some only recently cataloged, to support his thesis that the French Revolution survived until 1802 and the Consulate regime.... This volume should be a priority for all historians and serious students interested in modern French history. Summing Up: Essential."--Choice "What Brown has done is to put all historians of the French Revolution in his debt by the thoroughness with which he explores an important aspect of the complex and interrelated problems posed by any attempt to create a new social and moral order based on principles that could prove to be self-contradictory and were neither understood nor welcomed by a substantial proportion of the population."--English Historical Review "This is one of the most important pieces of scholarship on the French Revolution since the 1989 bicentennial."--David Bell, Johns Hopkins University For two centuries, the early years of the French Revolution have inspired countless democratic movements around the world. Yet little attention has been paid to the problems of violence, justice, and repression between the Reign of Terror and the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte. In Ending the French Revolution, Howard Brown analyzes these years to reveal the true difficulty of founding a liberal democracy in the midst of continual warfare, repeated coups d'état, and endemic civil strife. By highlighting the role played by violence and fear in generating illiberal politics, Brown speaks to the struggles facing democracy in our own age. The result is a fundamentally new understanding of the French Revolution's disappointing outcome. Howard G. Brown, Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York, is the author of War, Revolution, and the Bureaucratic State: Politics and Army Administration in France, 1791-1799 and coeditor of Taking Liberties: Problems of a New Order from the French Revolution to Napoleon. Winner of the American Historical Association's 2006 Leo Gershoy Award and the University of Virginia's 2004 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Book Synopsis Women, Equality, and the French Revolution by : Candice E. Proctor
Download or read book Women, Equality, and the French Revolution written by Candice E. Proctor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1990-10-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the first book-length study of attitudes toward women in revolutionary France. Based on extensive research in the libraries and archives of Paris, the book examines the impact of the Revolution's ideology of liberty and equality. When the men of 1789 wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were thinking in terms of man the male, not man the species. But there were some men and women who interpreted it in terms of all humanity. The outrage of these individuals over what they perceived as a discrepancy between the principles and the practice of the Revolution motivated them to produce some of the most unhesitating declarations of sexual equality that had ever been seen in history. Dr. Proctor demonstrates, however, these claims of equality were not simply ignored; they were categorically rejected by the mainstream revolutionaries. The book examines the typical 18th-century concept of women as alien and in some ways inferior beings and traces the striking continuity between pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary thought on the subject. Against this background, Proctor addresses a number of important questions: How widespread was the support for a movement in favor of sexual equality? What was the response of the Revolution itself to demands for equal rights for women? How did the men of the French Revolution justify the contradiction between their suppression of women and the ideologies for which they claimed to be fighting? To arrive at the answers, an abundance of material produced in France in the 18th century is identified and analyzed, and cited in an extensive bibliography of original sources. What finally emerges is not only a clearer picture of the French Revolution and its attitude toward women, but a deeper understanding of the ambivalent attitudes toward women that still affect our society today. This book will be an important resource for courses in European history, the French Revolution, and women's studies, as well as a valuable reference for college, university, and public libraries.
Book Synopsis A Natural History of Revolution by : Mary Ashburn Miller
Download or read book A Natural History of Revolution written by Mary Ashburn Miller and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau’s writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the best clues for understanding the French Revolution: namely, in studies of the natural world. In their attempts to portray and explain the events of the Revolution, political figures, playwrights, and journalists often turned to the book of nature: phenomena such as hailstorms and thunderbolts found their way into festivals, plays, and political speeches as descriptors of revolutionary activity. The particular way that revolutionaries deployed these metaphors drew on notions derived from the natural science of the day about regeneration, purgation, and balance. In examining a series of tropes (earthquakes, lightning, mountains, swamps, and volcanoes) that played an important role in the public language of the Revolution, A Natural History of Revolution reveals that understanding the use of this natural imagery is fundamental to our understanding of the Terror. Eighteenth-century natural histories had demonstrated that in the natural world, apparent disorder could lead to a restored equilibrium, or even regeneration. This logic drawn from the natural world offered the revolutionaries a crucial means of explaining and justifying revolutionary transformation. If thunder could restore balance in the atmosphere, and if volcanic eruptions could create more fertile soil, then so too could episodes of violence and disruption in the political realm be portrayed as necessary for forging a new order in revolutionary France.
Book Synopsis The French Revolution by : R. M. Johnston
Download or read book The French Revolution written by R. M. Johnston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The French Revolution: A Short History' by R.M. Johnston provides an economic perspective of the revolution in under 300 pages, highlighting the society's almost complete reliance on titles and privileges instead of economic growth and technological progress. The book summarizes the key stages and players of the Revolution, from the Royal family to individuals such as Robespierre and the various intellectuals consumed by it, such as Carnot, Voltaire, and Condorcet. The book also describes the rise of Napoleon, who consolidated all power under one man, resulting in a scenario similar to before the revolution. A must-read for history buffs and anyone interested in economic and political revolutions.
Book Synopsis The French Revolution 1789-1795 by : Bertha Meriton Gardiner
Download or read book The French Revolution 1789-1795 written by Bertha Meriton Gardiner and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the compelling world of "The French Revolution 1789-1795" by Bertha Meriton Gardiner, where history unfolds in vivid detail and the tumultuous events of one of the world's most significant revolutions come alive. Join Bertha Meriton Gardiner, a distinguished historian, as she guides you through the dramatic events and complex characters of the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the Reign of Terror, Gardiner's meticulous research and engaging narrative shed light on the political upheaval and social transformation that reshaped France and reverberated across Europe. Gardiner's insightful aanalysis and rich storytelling bring to life the key figures and pivotal moments of the revolution, exploring themes of liberty, equality, and the struggle for social justice. Through her detailed accounts and historical context, she invites readers to delve deep into the causes and consequences of this transformative period in history. With its blend of historical narrative, political analysis, and cultural insights, "The French Revolution 1789-1795" provides a comprehensive and compelling account that will captivate history enthusiasts and students alike. Gardiner's nuanced portrayal of the revolution's impact on society and politics offers a profound understanding of this pivotal moment in Western history. Since its publication, "The French Revolution 1789-1795" has been acclaimed for its scholarly rigor and readability. Gardiner's authoritative voice and clear exposition make this book an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand the complexities and significance of the French Revolution. As you immerse yourself in Gardiner's narrative, you'll gain new perspectives on the French Revolution's enduring legacy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Her meticulous research and insightful commentary ensure that this book will resonate with readers interested in history, politics, and the human quest for freedom. Don't miss your chance to explore the tumultuous era of the French Revolution with "The French Revolution 1789-1795" by Bertha Meriton Gardiner. Let Gardiner's expert analysis and compelling storytelling transport you to a time of revolution, upheaval, and the pursuit of liberty. Grab your copy now and discover why this book continues to be a definitive account of one of history's most transformative periods.
Book Synopsis The Age of Revolution: History of the American & French Revolution (Vol. 1&2) by : John Fiske
Download or read book The Age of Revolution: History of the American & French Revolution (Vol. 1&2) written by John Fiske and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Age of Revolution: History of the American & French Revolution (Vol. 1&2)', editors John Fiske and Charles Downer Hazen convene an enlightening exploration into the tumultuous period marking the late 18th century. This collection meticulously navigates between the ideological ebbs and flows that propelled the American and French revolutions, offering a kaleidoscope of perspectives that illuminate the eras complex socio-political tapestry. The anthology distinguishes itself by juxtaposing firsthand accounts, scholarly essays, and revolutionary correspondence, thus providing a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the revolutions' implications on modern democracy and national identity. The diversity of literary styles, from erudite analyses to impassioned polemics, enriches the discourse surrounding these pivotal events in world history. The editors have skillfully curated a volume that stands as a testament to the power and consequences of revolutionary thought and action. The contributing authors, John Fiske and Charles Downer Hazen, bring to the collection a wealth of knowledge grounded in their profound historical scholarship. Their backgrounds as esteemed historians are critical in knitting together a narrative that resonates with relevance and rigor. Aligning with historical and cultural movements of revisionist history, their collaborative work sheds light on the multifaceted ramifications of the revolutions, emphasizing the dynamism of the period. 'The Age of Revolution' is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of history alike. It invites readers into a vivid dialogue with the past, encouraging a deeper appreciation for the complexities and nuances of the revolutionary spirit. The anthology's breadth of content and perspectives offers a unique lens through which to examine the foundational moments of modern nation-states. Engaging with this collection promises not only to educate but also to inspire a renewed understanding of the revolutions that continue to shape our worlds political landscape.
