Author : G. Lowes Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317339177
First published in 1892, this book describes the development of political thought and political parties in ‘modern’ France. It starts by discussing the French Revolution of 1789 and closes with the Paris Commune of 1871. The book is not written strictly in chronological order but rather focuses on explaining the general character of each successive period. It will be of interest to both the student, and the more general reader.
Author : Roger Price
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : France
ISBN : 9780064957205
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 1794
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : David Andress
Publisher : Apollo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1788540085
In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues that it was the peasantry of France who made and defended the Revolution of 1789. That the peasant revolution benefitted far more people, in more far reaching ways, than the revolution of lawyerly elites and urban radicals that has dominated our view of the revolutionary period. History has paid more attention to Robespierre, Danton and Bonaparte than it has to the millions of French peasants who were the first to rise up in 1789, and the most ardent in defending changes in land ownership and political rights. 'Those furthest from the center rarely get their fair share of the light', Andress writes, and the peasants were patronized, reviled and often persecuted by urban elites for not following their lead. Andress's book reveals a rural world of conscious, hard-working people and their struggles to defend their ways of life and improve the lives of their children and communities.
Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2001-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0192853961
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.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 1907
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Charles Breunig
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Alan I. Forrest
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822309352
In this work Alan Forrest brings together some of the recent research on the Revolutionary army that has been undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic by younger historians, many of whom look to the influential work of Braudel for a model. Forrest places the armies of the Revolution in a broader social and political context by presenting the effects of war and militarization on French society and government in the Revolutionary period. Revolutionary idealists thought of the French soldier as a willing volunteer sacrificing himself for the principles of the Revolution; Forrest examines the convergence of these ideals with the ordinary, and often dreadful, experience of protracted warfare that the soldier endured.
Author : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1818
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Wilfried Nippel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316565114
Ancient and Modern Democracy is a comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate for 2,500 years, covering the features of Athenian democracy, its importance for the English, American and French revolutions and for the debates on democracy and political liberty from the nineteenth century to the present. Discussions were always in the context of contemporary constitutional problems. Time and again they made a connection with a long-established tradition, involving both dialogue with ancient sources and with earlier phases of the reception of Antiquity. They refer either to a common cultural legacy or to specific national traditions; they often involve a mixture of political and scholarly arguments. This book elucidates the complexity of considering and constructing systems of popular self-rule.
