Book Description
Describes conditions in the spring and summer of 1789 that gave rise to fear and panic among the French peasants.
Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
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Describes conditions in the spring and summer of 1789 that gave rise to fear and panic among the French peasants.
Author : Georges Lefèbvre
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 1973
Category : France
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Author : GEORGES. LEFEBVRE
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781788735957
Author : Georges Lefebvre
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
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Category : France
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Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0691206937
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. Here, 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 continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.
Author : Gregory Clay Ramsay
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 1973
Category : France
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Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691121888
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. Here, 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 continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.
Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Depressions
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Author : Timothy Tackett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0674044207
On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style. The king's flight opens a window to the whole of French society during the Revolution. Each dramatic chapter spotlights a different segment of the population, from the king and queen as they plotted and executed their flight, to the people of Varennes who apprehended the royal family, to the radicals of Paris who urged an end to monarchy, to the leaders of the National Assembly struggling to control a spiraling crisis, to the ordinary citizens stunned by their king's desertion. Tackett shows how Louis's flight reshaped popular attitudes toward kingship, intensified fears of invasion and conspiracy, and helped pave the way for the Reign of Terror. Tackett brings to life an array of unique characters as they struggle to confront the monumental transformations set in motion in 1789. In so doing, he offers an important new interpretation of the Revolution. By emphasizing the unpredictable and contingent character of this story, he underscores the power of a single event to change irrevocably the course of the French Revolution, and consequently the history of the world.