A Natural History Of Revolution
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The Natural History Of Revolution
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Author : Lyford Paterson Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
The Natural History Of Revolution written by Lyford Paterson Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Revolutions categories.
A Natural History Of Revolution
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Author : Mary Ashburn Miller
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-15
A Natural History Of Revolution written by Mary Ashburn Miller and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with History categories.
How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau’s writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the best clues for understanding the French Revolution: namely, in studies of the natural world. In their attempts to portray and explain the events of the Revolution, political figures, playwrights, and journalists often turned to the book of nature: phenomena such as hailstorms and thunderbolts found their way into festivals, plays, and political speeches as descriptors of revolutionary activity. The particular way that revolutionaries deployed these metaphors drew on notions derived from the natural science of the day about regeneration, purgation, and balance. In examining a series of tropes (earthquakes, lightning, mountains, swamps, and volcanoes) that played an important role in the public language of the Revolution, A Natural History of Revolution reveals that understanding the use of this natural imagery is fundamental to our understanding of the Terror. Eighteenth-century natural histories had demonstrated that in the natural world, apparent disorder could lead to a restored equilibrium, or even regeneration. This logic drawn from the natural world offered the revolutionaries a crucial means of explaining and justifying revolutionary transformation. If thunder could restore balance in the atmosphere, and if volcanic eruptions could create more fertile soil, then so too could episodes of violence and disruption in the political realm be portrayed as necessary for forging a new order in revolutionary France.
A Natural History Of Revolution
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Author : Mary Ashburn Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
A Natural History Of Revolution written by Mary Ashburn Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
The use of nature metaphors in explaining and justifying the excesses of the French Revolutions.
The Natural History Of Revolution
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Author : Lyford P. Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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The Natural History Of Revolution
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Author : Lyford P. Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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Terrorism And Communism
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Author : Karl Kautsky
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011
Terrorism And Communism written by Karl Kautsky and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
First published in English in 1920, this work is a reissue of Karl Kautsky's seminal work dealing with the origins and history of the forces at work in revolutionary epochs, which offers pathbreaking insights on the development of civilisation. The opening chapters, dealing with eigthteenth century France, are of special interest to the student of the French revolution. The section devoted to the Commune of Paris offers a stimulating and provocative description of this famous govenment of the working class. The reissue of this controversial and extraordinary work will be welcomed by all those interested in the history of Communism in particular and the theory and history of revolution in general.
Utopia S Garden
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Author : E. C. Spary
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-12-15
Utopia S Garden written by E. C. Spary and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Science categories.
The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.
The Soft Edge
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Author : Paul Levinson
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1998
The Soft Edge written by Paul Levinson and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Computers categories.
Explores theories on the evolution of technology, the effects that human choice has on this revolution, and what's in store in the future.
Revolution In History
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Author : Roy Porter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1986-10-09
Revolution In History written by Roy Porter and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-10-09 with History categories.
Fifteen contributors examine the interpretative value of ideas of revolution for explaining historical development within their own speciality. They assess the existing historiography and offer their personal views.
A New World Begins
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Author : Jeremy Popkin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-12-10
A New World Begins written by Jeremy Popkin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-10 with History categories.
From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and Black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror. Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins will stand as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.