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The age of cultural revolutions : Britain and France, 1750-1820 / edited by Colin Jones and Dror Wahrman.
LIBRA D295 .A44 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutions--Europe--History--18th century--Congresses.
- Revolutions.
- Political culture.
- History.
- Politics and government.
- Economic conditions.
- Great Britain--History--1760-1789--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--1789-1820--Congresses.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--18th century--Congresses.
- France--Politics and government--1789-1815--Congresses.
- France.
- France--History--1789-1815--Congresses.
- Political culture--France--History--18th century--Congresses.
- Political culture--Great Britain--History--18th century--Congresses.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 293 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- In this vanguard collection, a stellar group of internationally known scholars explores a key period in the making of the modern West. Although the long-standing notion of "dual revolutions" -- economic in Britain and political in France -- has been vigorously challenged in recent years, these authors find that "revolutionary" is an apt description of the important cultural transformations that took place in both France and Britain at the onset of modernity. The essays, by social and cultural historians as well as by literary scholars, range over many critical themes within this cross-cultural revolution: class, politics, and the nature of social change; gender and identity; race and imperialism; and the reach of the cultural imaginary.
- Contents:
- The places of the dead in modernity / Thomas W. Laqueur
- Jumonville's death: war propaganda and national identity in eighteenth-century France / David A. Bell
- Pacific modernity: theater, Englishness, and the arts of discovery, 1760-1800 / Kathleen Wilson
- The new social history in France / Gareth Stedman Jones
- The social imaginary of the French Revolution: the Third Estate, the National Guard, and the absent bourgeoisie / Sarah Maza
- Service and servitude in the world of labor: servants in England, 1750-1820 / Carolyn Steedman
- Moving accidents: the emergence of sentimental probability / James Chandler
- The secret history of domesticity: private, public, and the division of knowledge / Michael McKeon
- The cultural contradictions of feminism in the French Revolution / Carla Hesse
- Misogyny and feminism: the case of Mary Wollstonecraft / Barbara Taylor
- Parallel stages: theatrical and political representation in early modern and revolutionary France / Paul Friedland
- On queen bees and being queens: a late-eighteenth-century "cultural revolution"? / Dror Wahrman.
- Notes:
- Chiefly, selected papers of a conference entitled "Dissolving boundaries; historical writing towards the third millennium" held 1997 at the University of Warwick.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520229665
- 0520229673
- OCLC:
- 47050320
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