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Author : David D. Bien
language : en
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Release Date : 2014
Interpreting The Ancien R Gime written by David D. Bien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Enlightenment categories.
The work of David Bien, one of America's foremost historians of eighteenth-century France, transformed our understanding of the ancien régime and the origins of the French Revolution. The editors bring together for the first time his most important articles, other previously unpublished essays and an interview transcript. Bien's empirically-grounded approach made him a central figure in the 'revisionist' debates on the origins of the French Revolution. His re-reading of the Calas affair as an anomaly in a growing trend of tolerance (rather than a sign of widespread bigotry among an entire class of magistrates) opened up significant new insights into the history of religious persecution, long influenced by Voltaire. Bien's ground-breaking research on the army and the sale of offices revealed the surprising extent of social mobility at the time and challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that it was frustration of the bourgeoisie which contributed to the outbreak of the Revolution. With a preface by Keith Baker and an introduction by Michael Christofferson, Interpreting the 'ancien régime'underlines the seminal importance of David Bien's work for contemporary debates about the social and political history of late-eighteenth-century France. It will be an indispensible resource for historians and historiographers alike.
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Author : David Bien
language : en
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Release Date : 2014
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The work of David Bien, one of America's foremost historians of eighteenth-century France, transformed our understanding of the ancien régimeand the origins of the French Revolution. The editors bring together for the first time his most important articles, other previously unpublished essays and an interview transcript.Bien's empirically-grounded approach made him a central figure in the 'revisionist' debates on the origins of the French Revolution. His re-reading of the Calas affair as an anomaly in a growing trend of tolerance (rather than a sign of widespread bigotry among an entire class of magistrates) opened up significant new insights into the history of religious persecution, long influenced by Voltaire. Bien's ground-breaking research on the army and the sale of offices revealed the surprising extent of social mobility at the time and challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that it was frustration of the bourgeoisie which contributed to the outbreak of the Revolution.With a preface by Keith Baker and an introduction by Michael Christofferson,Interpreting the 'ancien régime'underlines the seminal importance of David Bien's work for contemporary debates about the social and political history of late-eighteenth-century France. It will be an indispensible resource for historians and historiographers alike. Reviews 'Most brilliantly on display in Bien's essays is the quality of his peculiar forte: namely that of seeing the problematical behind the apparently obvious and espying questions where people had earlier seen only answers'. Journal of modern history 'David Bien was without doubt one of the greatest historians of eighteenth-century France, and we are indebted to the editors for bringing some of his best work together in a single volume'. H-France Review
The French Revolution
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Author : Florin Aftalion
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-03-22
The French Revolution written by Florin Aftalion 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 1990-03-22 with Business & Economics categories.
The economic history of revolutionary France is still a neglected area in studies of the Revolution of 1789. Whilst some attention has been given to the condition of the peasants, the urban working classes and the financial crisis of the Ancient Régime, there has been a general tendency to regard economic factors as external and somewhat peripheral to the truly political nature of the Revolution. This book is designed to redress the balance, providing a clear, accessible, and thought-provoking guide to the economic background to the French Revolution. Professor Aftalion analyses the policies followed by successive revolutionary assemblies, examining in detail taxation, the confiscation of church property, the assignats, and the siege economy of the Terror. He shows how decisions taken in 1789 by the Constituent Assembly inevitably led to a deepening financial and economic crisis, and to increasingly radical and disastrous policies. The study is important also for its exposure of many of the economic fallacies propounded both at the time by many Frenchmen and later by many modern historians.
Ancien Regime And The Revolution
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Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-05-29
Ancien Regime And The Revolution written by Alexis de Tocqueville and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-29 with History categories.
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) is an objective observer of both periods – providing a merciless critique of the ancien régime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.
Interpreting The French Revolution
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Author : François Furet
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1981-09-24
Interpreting The French Revolution written by François Furet 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 1981-09-24 with History categories.
The author applies the philosophies of Alexis de Tocqueville and Augustin Cochin to both historical and contemporary explanations of the French Revolution.
Privilege And The Politics Of Taxation In Eighteenth Century France
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Author : Michael Kwass
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-02
Privilege And The Politics Of Taxation In Eighteenth Century France written by Michael Kwass 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 2006-11-02 with Business & Economics categories.
Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France, first published in 2000, offers a lucid interpretation of the Ancien Régime and the origins of the French Revolution. It examines what was arguably the most ambitious project of the eighteenth-century French monarchy: the attempt to impose direct taxes on formerly tax-exempt privileged elites. Connecting the social history of the state to the study of political culture, Michael Kwass describes how the crown refashioned its institutions and ideology to impose new forms of taxation on the privileged. Drawing on impressive primary research from national and provincial archives, Kwass demonstrates that the levy of these taxes, which struck elites with some force, not only altered the relationship between monarchy and social hierarchy, but also transformed political language and attitudes in the decades before the French Revolution. Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France sheds light on French history during this crucial period.
The Social Interpretation Of The French Revolution
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Author : Alfred Cobban
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-05-27
The Social Interpretation Of The French Revolution written by Alfred Cobban 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 1999-05-27 with History categories.
Alfred Cobban's The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution is one of the acknowledged classics of post-war historiography. This 'revisionist' analysis of the French Revolution caused a furore on first publication in 1964, challenging as it did established orthodoxies during the crucial period of the Cold War. Cobban saw the French Revolution as central to the 'grand narrative of modern history', but provided a salutary corrective to many celebrated social explanations, determinist and otherwise, of its origins and development. A generation later this concise but powerful intervention was reissued in this 1999 edition with an introduction by Gwynne Lewis, providing students with both a context for Cobban's own arguments, and assessing the course of Revolutionary studies in the wake of The Social Interpretation. This book remains a handbook of revisionism for Anglo-Saxon scholars, and is essential reading for all students of French history at undergraduate level and above.
Power And Politics In Old Regime France 1720 1745
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Author : Peter Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-10-04
Power And Politics In Old Regime France 1720 1745 written by Peter Campbell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-04 with History categories.
First Published in 2004. Power and Politics in Old Regime France is a major history of the politics of the first half of the reign of Louis XV. It is based on exhaustive archival research and offers the first comprehensive analysis of the neglected ministries of the duc de Bourbon and the cardinal de Fleury. Peter R. Campbell deals first with court, faction and policy. A second section offers new interpretations of the crises provoked by Jansenism and the Paris parlement. By contrasting the methods and practices of political management in this period of successful government with the crisis of the old regime in the 1780s, he illuminates the underlying character of politics in the old regime and raises new questions about its collapse. An unusually substantial bibliography represents an invaluable resource to the researcher.
Class And State In Ancien Regime France
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Author : David Parker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11
Class And State In Ancien Regime France written by David Parker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11 with Business & Economics categories.
David Parker's challenging interpretation presents a broad, in-depth study of the economic, social, ideological and political foundations of French Absolutism. This stimulating reassessment runs contrary to much revisionist historiography.
The Old Regime And The Revolution
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Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
The Old Regime And The Revolution written by Alexis de Tocqueville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with History categories.