The Abolition of Feudalism in France (August 4, 1789)
Author | : William Thorne Halstead |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1929 |
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Author | : William Thorne Halstead |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1929 |
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Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Feudalism |
ISBN | : 9780271054421 |
Author | : Michael P. Fitzsimmons |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271028996 |
If the Fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, marks the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution, then August 4 is the day the Old Regime ended, for it was on that day (or, more precisely, that night) that the National Assembly met and undertook sweeping reforms that ultimately led to a complete reconstruction of the French polity. What began as a prearranged meeting with limited objectives suddenly took on a frenzied atmosphere during which dozens of noble deputies renounced their traditional privileges and dues. By the end of the night, the Assembly had instituted more meaningful reform than had the monarchy in decades of futile efforts. In The Night the Old Regime Ended, Michael Fitzsimmons offers the first full-length study in English of the night of August 4 and its importance to the French Revolution. Fitzsimmons argues against François Furet and others who maintain that the Terror was implicit in the events of 1789. To the contrary, Fitzsimmons shows that the period from 1789 to 1791 was a genuine moderate phase of the Revolution. Unlike all of its successor bodies, the National Assembly passed no punitive legislation against recalcitrant clergy or émigrés, and it amnestied all those imprisoned for political offenses before it disbanded. In the final analysis, the remarkable degree of change accomplished peacefully is what distinguishes the early period of the Revolution and gives it world-historical importance.
Author | : John Markoff |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271044411 |
Author | : Evelyn Kayser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2011-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195389417 |
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Author | : Robert H. Blackman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108492444 |
The first comprehensive study of the complex events and debates through which the 1789 French National Assembly became a sovereign body.
Author | : Hilaire Belloc |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : David Eltis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 777 |
Release | : 2011-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521840686 |
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Author | : Gilbert Shapiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804726696 |
This pathbreaking work reports on the methods, and some of the results, of a content analysis of the cahiers de doléances, the well-known lists of grievances in which, in 1789, the French people expressed their dissatisfactions with the state of their society and their hopes for a better future. The analysis is an outgrowth of a larger research project, "Quantitative Studies of the French Revolution," conducted by the authors and others over a thirty-year period. The central data of the research for this book are a coding of a national sample of documents representing the views of rural parishes, the Nobility, and the Third Estate. These codes, together with data on the economic, social, and political conditions of the regions of France under the Old Regime and data on political behavior during the revolutionary period, form a computerized data archive to be made available to researchers. The book is in four parts. Part I describes content analysis as a method and its varieties, controversies, and problems. Part II discusses the cahiers and their authenticity and usefulness as a historical source. Part III considers the coding procedures, information about the sample, and studies bearing on the evaluation of the coding process. Part IV, the largest part of the book, presents some of the authors' findings to date, including a summary of the concerns expressed by the nation in 1789, a study of the attitudes toward the monarchy, an analysis of consensus and conflict among the Estates, and the influence of social mobility upon political radicalism. Appendixes provide details of the coding, the national frequencies of many grievance categories, lists of sources of coded cahiers, and maps indicating the data's coverage of France.