Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Library
Publisher :
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN :
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 1969
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Book Description
The French Revolution
Author : Paul Harold Beik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1349005266
Book Description
Ninety-three
Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 1888
Category : France
ISBN :
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The Calendar in Revolutionary France
Author : Sanja Perovic
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139537032
Book Description
One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain Maréchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time, and the relationship between the imagination and political action.
The French Revolution: From its origins to 1793
Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 1962
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231023429
Book Description
French Emigrants in Revolutionised Europe
Author : Laure Philip
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 3030274357
Book Description
The French emigration was an exilic movement triggered by the 1789 French Revolution with long-lasting social, cultural, and political impacts that continued well into the nineteenth century. At times paradoxical, the political and legal implications of being an émigré are detangled in this edited collection, thus bringing to light unexpected processes of tensions and compromises between the exiles and their host societies. The refugee/host contact points also fostered a series of cultural transfers. This book argues that the French emigration ought to be seen within the broader context of an ‘Age of Exile’, a notion that better encompasses the dynamics of migration that forced many to re-imagine their relation to a nation and define their displaced identities. Revisiting the historiography of the last twenty years from an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume challenges pre-existing beliefs on the journeys and re-settlements – in Europe and beyond – of the French émigré community.
The Coming of the French Revolution
Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0691206937
Book Description
The classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French Revolution 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—and in this book 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 offers perennial insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.
The Sans-Culottes
Author : Albert Soboul
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0691268355
Book Description
A riveting portrait of the radical and militant partisans who changed the course of the French Revolution A phenomenon of the preindustrial age, the sans-culottes—master craftsmen, shopkeepers, small merchants, domestic servants—were as hostile to the ideas of capitalist bourgeoisie as they were to those of the ancien régime that was overthrown in the first years of the French Revolution. For half a decade, their movement exerted a powerful control over the central wards of Paris and other large commercial centers, changing the course of the revolution. Here is a detailed portrait of who these people were and a sympathetic account of their moment in history.
The Great Cat Massacre
Author : Robert Darnton
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0465010482
Book Description
The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers The Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.
