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Aristocracy and its enemies in the age of revolution / William Doyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, William, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristocracy (Political science)--France--History--18th century.
- Aristocracy (Political science).
- Nobility--France--History--18th century.
- Nobility.
- Aristocracy (Political science)--France--Public opinion--History--18th century.
- Nobility--France--Public opinion--History--18th century.
- Public opinion--France--History--18th century.
- Public opinion.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Social aspects.
- France.
- France--Social conditions--18th century.
- France--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (382 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Describes how the French revolutionaries tried to abolish the nobility, analysing the intellectual roots of hostility to nobles, the steps by which revolutionaries turned against aristocracy, the impact of persecution, emigration, confiscation, and Terror, and the long-term consequences of these developments for the nobility. - ;Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and nobilities. In the eighteenth century their power seemed better entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely. 'Aristocracy' became the t
- Contents:
- Aristocracy ascendant : the world of eighteenth-century nobility
- Ideologies of inequality
- Ageless antagonisms : the limits of discontent
- Aristocracy avoided : America and the Cincinnati
- Straws in the wind : the breakdown of the old order
- Aristocracy attacked : the rise and fall of the noble order
- Aristocracy abolished : the destruction of noble power
- Ci-devants, 1790-1792
- Persecution, 1792-1799
- Ambiguous aftermaths.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-356) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160971-4
- 0-19-156827-9
- 9786612268816
- 1-282-26881-3
- OCLC:
- 437414188
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