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Author | : J. H. Shennan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136161589 |
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This fully revised second edition takes account of historical work produced during the last decade. Covering the period between Louis XIV's death in 1715 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, it discusses: * France's accomplishments in international affairs, commercial expansion, and intellectual and artistic life * the significance of long-term political, social and economic forces in causing the Revolution * how the changing perception of government, from one of divine-right kingship towards the idea of a national enterprise, ultimately undermined the old regime.
Author | : Joseph F. Byrnes |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271064900 |
Download Priests of the French Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.
Author | : Jon Elster |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2022-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 069124152X |
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"France before 1789 presents the main features of the prodigiously complex social system of the ancien regime which proceeded the French Revolution. In doing so Jon Elster goes beyond formal institutions to show how they worked in practice. He draws on a host of examples and contemporary texts to illuminate the perverse and sometimes pathological effects of this system and seeks to provide a detailed analysis of the political institutions that undergirded it. Whereas Tocqueville, in his famous analysis of the ancient regime, wanted to understand the old regime as a prelude to revolution, Elster views it as a prelude to constitution-making prompted by and intended to resolve these perversities. He views these as overlapping, yet important enough to render distinct. In addition to defending a particular set of substantive propositions about the conditions which led to the Constituent Assembly, Elster argues for a specific methodological approach to history, which emphasizes supplementing the historian's craft with approaches from the social sciences. Ultimately, he does not claim to answer the historians' questions better than they do. But he does aspire to ask and sometimes answer questions that historians have not formulated in order to better understand one of the most significant examples of collective decision-making history offers us"--
Author | : Alexis de Tocqueville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alexis de Tocqueville |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2019-06-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download The State of France Before the Revolution of 1789 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book I now publish is not a history of the French Revolution; that history has been written with too much success for me to attempt to write it again. This volume is a study on the Revolution. The French people made, in 1789, the greatest effort which was ever attempted by any nation to cut, so to speak, their destiny in halves, and to separate by an abyss that which they had heretofore been from that which they sought to become hereafter. For this purpose, they took all sorts of precautions to carry nothing of their past with them into their new condition; they submitted to every species of constraint in order to fashion themselves otherwise than their fathers were; they neglected nothing which could efface their identity.
Author | : Carine Lounissi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2018-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319752898 |
Download Thomas Paine and the French Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores Thomas Paine's French decade, from the publication of the first part of Rights of Man in the spring of 1791 to his return trip to the United States in the fall of 1802. It examines Paine's multifarious activities during this period as a thinker, writer, member of the French Convention, lobbyist, adviser to French governments, officious diplomat and propagandist. Using previously neglected sources and archival material, Carine Lounissi demonstrates both how his republicanism was challenged, bolstered and altered by this French experience, and how his positions at key moments of the history of the French experiment forced major participants in the Revolution to defend or question the kind of regime or of republic they wished to set up. As a member of the Lafayette circle when writing the manuscript of Rights of Man, of the Girondin constellation in the Convention, one of the few democrats who defended universal suffrage after Thermidor, and as a member of the Constitutional Circle which promoted a kind of republic which did not match his ideas, Paine baffled his contemporaries and still puzzles the present-day scholar. This book intends to offer a new perspective on Paine, and on how this major agent of revolutions contributed to the debate on the French Revolution both in France and outside France.
Author | : Alexis de Tocqueville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Download On the State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : 9780947608057 |
Download The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : George Washington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Georges Lefebvre |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780231023429 |
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