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The Abbé Grégoire and his world / edited by Jeremy D. Popkin and Richard H. Popkin.
Van Pelt Library DC146.G84 A635 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 169.
- Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas ; 169
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grégoire, Henri, 1750-1831--Political and social views.
- Grégoire, Henri.
- GreÌgoire, Henri, 1750-1831.
- Revolutionaries--France--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- Political and social views.
- France.
- Bishops--France--Biography.
- Bishops.
- France--Politics and government--1789-1799.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 191 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2000]
- Summary:
- A distinguished group of international scholars from the disciplines of history, philosophy, literature and art history offer a reconsideration of the ideas and the impact of the abb?? Henri Gr??goire, one of the most important figures of the French Revolution and a contributor to the campaigns for Jewish emancipation, rights for blacks, the reform of the Catholic Church and many other causes
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Abbe Gregoire: A Hero for Our Times? / Jeremy D. Popkin ix
- Essay 1 Gregoire and the Anthropology of Emancipation / Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink 1
- Essay 2 The Abbe Gregoire's Program for the Jews: Social Reform and Spiritual Project / Rita Hermon-Belot 13
- Essay 3 The Abbe Gregoire and the Societe des Amis des Noris / Marcel Dorigny 27
- Essay 4 Exporting the Revolution: Gregoire, Haiti and the Colonial Laboratory, 1815-1827 / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall 41
- Essay 5 The Abbe Gregoire and the Quest for a Catholic Republic / Dale Van Kley 71
- Essay 6 Tearing Down the Tower of Babel: Gregoire and French Multilingualism / David A. Bell 109
- Essay 7 The Paradoxes of Vandalism: Henri Gregoire and the Thermidorian Discourse on Historical Monuments / Anthony Vidler 129
- Essay 8 Gregoire's American Involvements / Richard H. Popkin 157
- Essay 9 Gregoire as Autobiographer / Jeremy D. Popkin 167
- Afterword: Discovering the Abbe Gregoire / Richard H. Popkin 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0792362470
- OCLC:
- 43785524
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