Author: Timothy Tackett
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271028882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Winner of the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association, 1998, for the best book in Early Modern European History. Timothy Tackett&’s Becoming a Revolutionary revisits one of the most controversial moments in history: the beginning of the French Revolution. How did it arise? Why did French men and women become revolutionaries? To answer these questions, Tackett focuses on the experiences of the 1200 members of the first French National Assembly. Drawing upon on a wide range of sources, including contemporary letters and diaries, Tackett shows that the deputies were a group of practical men, whose ideas were governed more by concrete subjects than by abstract philosophy. Though it may seem surprising now, most of the deputies were actually in support of the king. Instead of being initiated as a result of a specific ideology founded on Enlightenment principles, the ideas that eventually led to the French Revolution were, instead, a direct result of the actual process of the Assembly. First published in 1996 and hailed as an &“exemplary product of the historian&’s craft,&” Becoming a Revolutionary is now available in paperback for the first time.
Becoming a Revolutionary
Author: Timothy Tackett
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271028882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Winner of the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association, 1998, for the best book in Early Modern European History. Timothy Tackett&’s Becoming a Revolutionary revisits one of the most controversial moments in history: the beginning of the French Revolution. How did it arise? Why did French men and women become revolutionaries? To answer these questions, Tackett focuses on the experiences of the 1200 members of the first French National Assembly. Drawing upon on a wide range of sources, including contemporary letters and diaries, Tackett shows that the deputies were a group of practical men, whose ideas were governed more by concrete subjects than by abstract philosophy. Though it may seem surprising now, most of the deputies were actually in support of the king. Instead of being initiated as a result of a specific ideology founded on Enlightenment principles, the ideas that eventually led to the French Revolution were, instead, a direct result of the actual process of the Assembly. First published in 1996 and hailed as an &“exemplary product of the historian&’s craft,&” Becoming a Revolutionary is now available in paperback for the first time.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271028882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Winner of the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association, 1998, for the best book in Early Modern European History. Timothy Tackett&’s Becoming a Revolutionary revisits one of the most controversial moments in history: the beginning of the French Revolution. How did it arise? Why did French men and women become revolutionaries? To answer these questions, Tackett focuses on the experiences of the 1200 members of the first French National Assembly. Drawing upon on a wide range of sources, including contemporary letters and diaries, Tackett shows that the deputies were a group of practical men, whose ideas were governed more by concrete subjects than by abstract philosophy. Though it may seem surprising now, most of the deputies were actually in support of the king. Instead of being initiated as a result of a specific ideology founded on Enlightenment principles, the ideas that eventually led to the French Revolution were, instead, a direct result of the actual process of the Assembly. First published in 1996 and hailed as an &“exemplary product of the historian&’s craft,&” Becoming a Revolutionary is now available in paperback for the first time.
Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism
Author: Saladdin Ahmed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135026931X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
As we face new and debilitating catastrophes caused by capitalism and nation-state politics, Saladdin Ahmed argues that our only hope is to create space for a new world by negating the existing order. To achieve this new society, Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism outlines a practical philosophy of change that rejects ideologies of false hope and passive hopelessness. Drawing public attention to the decisiveness of the present historical moment, Ahmed introduces a critical theory of social emancipation based on post-Soviet revolutionary movements that have emerged at the margins of the global social order. The rise of socially and politically exclusionary movements in multiple parts of the world, ongoing ecological crisis, anti-Black racism, and the concretization of despair brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic demand a new approach to revolution, which Ahmed argues, must be rooted in the experiences of the most oppressed in society. Realizing the epistemological potential of emancipatory movements, Ahmed rejects dystopian nihilism and positions our focus on marginalized spaces to break out of capitalist totalitarianism.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135026931X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
As we face new and debilitating catastrophes caused by capitalism and nation-state politics, Saladdin Ahmed argues that our only hope is to create space for a new world by negating the existing order. To achieve this new society, Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism outlines a practical philosophy of change that rejects ideologies of false hope and passive hopelessness. Drawing public attention to the decisiveness of the present historical moment, Ahmed introduces a critical theory of social emancipation based on post-Soviet revolutionary movements that have emerged at the margins of the global social order. The rise of socially and politically exclusionary movements in multiple parts of the world, ongoing ecological crisis, anti-Black racism, and the concretization of despair brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic demand a new approach to revolution, which Ahmed argues, must be rooted in the experiences of the most oppressed in society. Realizing the epistemological potential of emancipatory movements, Ahmed rejects dystopian nihilism and positions our focus on marginalized spaces to break out of capitalist totalitarianism.
Becoming Revolutionary
Author: Analisa Turnow
Publisher: Redemption Press
ISBN: 9781646450862
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Revolution can happen in the most unexpected of places- where darkness and dysfunction live, hope still remains. Eve originally had a life of perfection in the garden of Eden. Tempted by Satan to doubt God's plan, she gave in to sin, marking a drastic turn for her life and for the rest of humanity. Yet God did not define Eve by her sin. Neither does He define you by your sin. We can see ourselves through Eve's story. Like Eve, we doubt God's plans. We reach for things that, ultimately, leave us unfulfilled. We try to take control of our lives and become our own god. Thankfully, Eve's life did not end with her decision to eat the forbidden fruit or with her ensuing shame, guilt, and hiding from God. She persevered through her pain to experience God's unconditional love and mercy, which left her praising God while becoming the mother of future generations. She became revolutionary. Becoming Revolutionary will help you identify and process your own sin and dysfunction and help you experience revolution. Through the lens of Eve, this book will lead you through purposeful self-reflection and guide you through stepping out of the darkness into Christ's perfect love, which covers sin and shame and casts out all fear.
Publisher: Redemption Press
ISBN: 9781646450862
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Revolution can happen in the most unexpected of places- where darkness and dysfunction live, hope still remains. Eve originally had a life of perfection in the garden of Eden. Tempted by Satan to doubt God's plan, she gave in to sin, marking a drastic turn for her life and for the rest of humanity. Yet God did not define Eve by her sin. Neither does He define you by your sin. We can see ourselves through Eve's story. Like Eve, we doubt God's plans. We reach for things that, ultimately, leave us unfulfilled. We try to take control of our lives and become our own god. Thankfully, Eve's life did not end with her decision to eat the forbidden fruit or with her ensuing shame, guilt, and hiding from God. She persevered through her pain to experience God's unconditional love and mercy, which left her praising God while becoming the mother of future generations. She became revolutionary. Becoming Revolutionary will help you identify and process your own sin and dysfunction and help you experience revolution. Through the lens of Eve, this book will lead you through purposeful self-reflection and guide you through stepping out of the darkness into Christ's perfect love, which covers sin and shame and casts out all fear.
The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution
Author: David Andress
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019100992X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations of academic thinking on key topics, along with stimulating and provocative interpretations and suggestions for future research directions. Placing core dimensions of the history of the French Revolution in their transnational and global contexts, the contributors demonstrate that revolutionary times demand close analysis of sometimes tiny groups of key political actors - whether the king and his ministers or the besieged leaders of the Jacobin republic - and attention to the deeply local politics of both rural and urban populations. Identities of class, gender and ethnicity are interrogated, but so too are conceptions and practices linked to citizenship, community, order, security, and freedom: each in their way just as central to revolutionary experiences, and equally amenable to critical analysis and reflection. This volume covers the structural and political contexts that build up to give new views on the classic question of the 'origins of revolution'; the different dimensions of personal and social experience that illuminate the political moment of 1789 itself; the goals and dilemmas of the period of constitutional monarchy; the processes of destabilisation and ongoing conflict that ended that experiment; the key issues surrounding the emergence and experience of 'terror'; and the short- and long-term legacies, for both good and ill, of the revolutionary trauma - for France, and for global politics.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019100992X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations of academic thinking on key topics, along with stimulating and provocative interpretations and suggestions for future research directions. Placing core dimensions of the history of the French Revolution in their transnational and global contexts, the contributors demonstrate that revolutionary times demand close analysis of sometimes tiny groups of key political actors - whether the king and his ministers or the besieged leaders of the Jacobin republic - and attention to the deeply local politics of both rural and urban populations. Identities of class, gender and ethnicity are interrogated, but so too are conceptions and practices linked to citizenship, community, order, security, and freedom: each in their way just as central to revolutionary experiences, and equally amenable to critical analysis and reflection. This volume covers the structural and political contexts that build up to give new views on the classic question of the 'origins of revolution'; the different dimensions of personal and social experience that illuminate the political moment of 1789 itself; the goals and dilemmas of the period of constitutional monarchy; the processes of destabilisation and ongoing conflict that ended that experiment; the key issues surrounding the emergence and experience of 'terror'; and the short- and long-term legacies, for both good and ill, of the revolutionary trauma - for France, and for global politics.
The History of the French Revolution
Author: Adolphe Thiers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
A Short History of the French Revolution (Subscription)
Author: Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315508923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This book attempts to introduce students to the major events that make up the story of the French Revolution and to the different ways in which historians have interpreted them. It covers the relationship between France and the United States.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315508923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This book attempts to introduce students to the major events that make up the story of the French Revolution and to the different ways in which historians have interpreted them. It covers the relationship between France and the United States.
The American Revolution
Author: Conservation Fund (Arlington, Va.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199324220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook is both a guide to the most significant places of the Revolutionary War and a guide to the most authoritative books on the subject. The book presents, in chronological order, nearly 150 of the most significant battles and historic sites, and draws on essays from scholars in the field.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199324220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook is both a guide to the most significant places of the Revolutionary War and a guide to the most authoritative books on the subject. The book presents, in chronological order, nearly 150 of the most significant battles and historic sites, and draws on essays from scholars in the field.
Outside the Revolution; Everything
Author: Tom Astley
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780994109
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Through the reclamation of a left-wing identity, disparate groups of Cuban musicians seek a collective Cubanness ‘outside of the Revolution’. ,
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780994109
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Through the reclamation of a left-wing identity, disparate groups of Cuban musicians seek a collective Cubanness ‘outside of the Revolution’. ,
Revolution and International Politics
Author: Peter Calvert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474291376
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book aims to present an analysis of the role of revolution in international politics. Concerning itself with the time frame from the French Revolution up to the fall of the Iron Curtain, this book covers the study of revolution itself, the importance of globalisation, interdependence and non-state actors and the change in the nature of international politics theory.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474291376
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book aims to present an analysis of the role of revolution in international politics. Concerning itself with the time frame from the French Revolution up to the fall of the Iron Curtain, this book covers the study of revolution itself, the importance of globalisation, interdependence and non-state actors and the change in the nature of international politics theory.