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Pages : 872
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Book of Wonders!
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Pages : 872
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Historicizing the French Revolution
Author: Antonino De Francesco
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350186937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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This book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia) as well as in the United States between 1789 and 1989. It also goes on to examine recent trends in French Revolution historiography and consider where histories of this landmark event may go in the future. By emphasizing the elements which have been valued or hidden, exalted or silenced, Historicizing the French Revolution shows how reflections on 1789 are always fundamentally tied to the times in which they are formulated. Antonino De Francesco looks at the ways in which these historical accounts can be seen to support and, at times, contrast with the formation of political modernity – both in national and international contexts – as it has taken shape in the hundreds of years that have followed this key moment in world history.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350186937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia) as well as in the United States between 1789 and 1989. It also goes on to examine recent trends in French Revolution historiography and consider where histories of this landmark event may go in the future. By emphasizing the elements which have been valued or hidden, exalted or silenced, Historicizing the French Revolution shows how reflections on 1789 are always fundamentally tied to the times in which they are formulated. Antonino De Francesco looks at the ways in which these historical accounts can be seen to support and, at times, contrast with the formation of political modernity – both in national and international contexts – as it has taken shape in the hundreds of years that have followed this key moment in world history.
The Latest Catastrophe
Author: Henry Rousso
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022616523X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today’s historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and practices of what is called “contemporary history,” a history of the present time, and identifies special tensions in the field between knowledge and experience, distance and proximity, and objectivity and subjectivity. Henry Rousso addresses the rise of contemporary history and the relations of present-day societies to their past, especially their legacies of political violence. Focusing on France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, he shows that for contemporary historians, the recent past has become a problem to be solved. No longer unfolding as a series of traditions to be respected or a set of knowledge to be transmitted and built upon, history today is treated as a constant act of mourning or memory, an attempt to atone. Historians must also negotiate with strife within this field, as older scholars who may have lived through events clash with younger historians who also claim to understand the experiences. Ultimately, The Latest Catastrophe shows how historians, at times against their will, have themselves become actors in a history still being made.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022616523X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today’s historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and practices of what is called “contemporary history,” a history of the present time, and identifies special tensions in the field between knowledge and experience, distance and proximity, and objectivity and subjectivity. Henry Rousso addresses the rise of contemporary history and the relations of present-day societies to their past, especially their legacies of political violence. Focusing on France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, he shows that for contemporary historians, the recent past has become a problem to be solved. No longer unfolding as a series of traditions to be respected or a set of knowledge to be transmitted and built upon, history today is treated as a constant act of mourning or memory, an attempt to atone. Historians must also negotiate with strife within this field, as older scholars who may have lived through events clash with younger historians who also claim to understand the experiences. Ultimately, The Latest Catastrophe shows how historians, at times against their will, have themselves become actors in a history still being made.
Pamphlets & Public Opinion
Author: Kenneth Margerison
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557531094
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This work examines how, in the months leading up to the French Revolution, both the royal government and its opposition relied heavily upon pamphlets to sway public opinion, and how the number of published pamphlets reached truly astounding proportions in late 1788 and early 1789.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557531094
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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This work examines how, in the months leading up to the French Revolution, both the royal government and its opposition relied heavily upon pamphlets to sway public opinion, and how the number of published pamphlets reached truly astounding proportions in late 1788 and early 1789.
Anti-Jacobin Review, True Churchman's Magazine; and Protestant Advocate
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Collected Works
Author: John Stuart Mill
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Pages : 632
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Autobiography and Literary essays
Author: John Stuart Mill
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Saint-Just, Colleague of Robespierre
Author: Eugene Newton Curtis
Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Essays on French history and historians
Author: John Stuart Mill
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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