Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Night the Old Regime Ended
Author: Michael P. FitzsimmonsPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Work and Revolution in France
Author: William Hamilton SewellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521299510
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Sewell synthesizes the material on the social history of the French labor movement from its formative period to the first half of the 19th century. Centers on the Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848.
The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
Author: Malick W. GhachemPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521836808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A provocative history of Haiti up to 1804, when Haitians became the first formerly enslaved people to overthrow a colonial slaveholding power.
University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 7
Author: Keith M. BakerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226069500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Author: Robert DarntonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674536579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. By drawing on an ingenious selection of previously hidden sources, he reveals for the first time the fascinating story of this eighteenth-century counterculture that has virtually disappeared from history.
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486117529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This 1856 volume constitutes one of the most important books ever written about the French Revolution. It explores the rebellion's origins and consequences, offering timeless insights into the pursuit of individual and political freedom.
Feudalism, venality, and revolution
Author: Stephen MillerPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526148366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king’s government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.
French Salons
Author: Steven D. KalePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801883866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Challenging many of the conclusions of recent historiography, including the depiction of salonnières as influential power brokers, French Salons offers an original, penetrating, and engaging analysis of elite culture and society in France before, during, and after the Revolution.