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Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

By Lynn Hunt

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780520931046
DOI
10.1525/9780520931046
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (29094073 bytes)
Pages
272\274
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 15:26:29

Description

When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.

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