Book Description
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 : Nathaniel Harris
Publisher : B T Batsford Limited
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 32,96 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 : Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,36 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 : Stewart Ross
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2001
Category : France
ISBN : 9780431069111
Each of the titles in this series examines a major historical watershed. The authors recount the chain of events leading up to the event and the repercussions, both immediate and long-term. They also evaluate the concept of a turning point, assessing in what way this event qualifies. Differing interpretations are discussed, showing how history is informed by a complicated web of divergent views.
Author : Robert Lacey
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 1968
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Hilarie Belloc
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 1969
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Kitty Benedict
Publisher : Silver Burdett Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780382241352
Describes how the prison known as the Bastille passed from the hands of the government to the hands of the common people, thus beginning the French Revolution.
Author : Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 32,64 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 :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 1969
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Robert Lacey
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 1968
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Colin Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0198715951
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced.