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Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French political culture in the eighteenth century

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521385784 9780521385787
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23695361 bytes)
Series
Ideas in Context
Pages
382\382
Topic
History
Time added
2018-06-30 19:10:39

Description

A wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the question 'How did the French Revolution become thinkable?'. Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. On the problem of the ideological origins of the French Revolution; Part I. French History at Issue: 2. Memory and practice: politics and the representation of the past in eighteenth-century France; 3. Controlling French history: the ideological arsenal of Jacob-Nicolas Moreau; 4. A script for a French revolution: the political consciousness of the abbe Mably; Part II. The Language of Politics at the End of the Old Regime: 5. French political thought at the accession of Louis XVI; 6. A classical republican in eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Guillaume-Joseph Saige; 7. Science and politics at the end of the old regime; 8. Public opinion as political invention; Part III. Toward a Revolutionary Lexicon: 9. Inventing the French Revolution; 10. Representation redefined; 11. Fixing the French constitution; Notes; Index.

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