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Analysis of the political, economic, social and demographic aspects of the storming of the Bastille in Paris.
Author : Jacques Léon Godechot
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : France
ISBN : 9780571082421
Analysis of the political, economic, social and demographic aspects of the storming of the Bastille in Paris.
Author : Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 1997-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 082238275X
This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, becoming a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime. Lüsebrink and Reichardt use this semiotic reading of the Bastille to reveal how historical symbols are generated; what these symbols’ functions are in the collective memory of societies; and how they are used by social, political, and ideological groups. To facilitate the symbolic nature of the investigation, this analysis of the evolving signification of the Bastille moves from the French Revolution to the nineteenth century to contemporary history. The narrative also shifts from France to other cultural arenas, like the modern European colonial sphere, where the overthrow of the Bastille acquired radical new signification in the decolonization period of the 1940s and 1950s. The Bastille demonstrates the potency of the interdisciplinary historical research that has characterized the end of this century, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, and taking its methodological tools from history, sociology, linguistics, and cultural and literary studies.
Author : Christopher Prendergast
Publisher : Profile Books(GB)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781846681158
The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and the beginning of the French Revolution.
Author : Jacques Léon Godechot
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release :
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1997-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822318941
This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, becoming a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime. Lüsebrink and Reichardt use this semiotic reading of the Bastille to reveal how historical symbols are generated; what these symbols’ functions are in the collective memory of societies; and how they are used by social, political, and ideological groups. To facilitate the symbolic nature of the investigation, this analysis of the evolving signification of the Bastille moves from the French Revolution to the nineteenth century to contemporary history. The narrative also shifts from France to other cultural arenas, like the modern European colonial sphere, where the overthrow of the Bastille acquired radical new signification in the decolonization period of the 1940s and 1950s. The Bastille demonstrates the potency of the interdisciplinary historical research that has characterized the end of this century, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, and taking its methodological tools from history, sociology, linguistics, and cultural and literary studies.
Author : Jacques Godechot
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Nathaniel Harris
Publisher : B T Batsford Limited
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : France
ISBN : 9780852196700
Describes the storming of the Bastille fortress on July 14, 1789, and the significance of this event in the revolution that followed and in subsequent French history.
Author : Douglas Liversidge
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : France
ISBN : 9780531021552
Traces the events leading to the storming of the Bastille and analyzes the significance of its fall.
Author : Jeremy Popkin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0465096670
From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and Black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror. Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins will stand as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.
Author : Michael P. Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0271046171