Historicising the French Revolution / edited by Carolina Armenteros ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armenteros, Carolina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence.

France.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Three decades ago, François Furet famously announced that the French Revolution was over. Napoleon's armies ceased to march around Europe long ago, and Louis XVIII even returned to occupy the throne of his guillotined brother. And yet the Revolution's memory continues to hold sway over imaginations and cultures around the world. This sway is felt particularly strongly by those who are interested in history: for the French Revolution not only altered the course of history radically, but became...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE AND THE END OF HISTORY; THE REFUSE OF THE REVOLUTION; FROM ROYAL TO BOURGEOIS; MAKING THE REVOLUTION HISTORY; HISTORICISING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN THE THIRD REPUBLIC; PART II; THE MEMORY OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC IN LEDRU-ROLLIN'S POLITICAL THOUGHT; THE FRENCH REVOLUTION FROM A TURKISH PERSPECTIVE; MEMORIES OF THE RÉPUBLIQUE IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRANCE; FRENCH LIBERALISM AND THE LEGACY OF THE REVOLUTION; PART III; RETHINKING THE HISTORY OF IRELAND AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

THE EDUCATIONAL PROPOSALS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONTHE LEGACY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NOVEMBER UPRISING IN THE KINGDOM OF POLAND, 1815-31; REMEMBERING THE NAPOLEONIC PERIOD IN THE FRENCH-OCCUPIED RHINELAND,1918-30; PART IV; EX-CONVENTIONNELS VERSUS HISTORIANS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; THE CONTINUING HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DEBATE ON THE CULT AND FESTIVAL OF THE SUPREME BEING; DES HISTORIENS CONTRE LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE AU XXE SIÈCLE; EPILOGUE; CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES

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ISBN:

1-282-33417-4

9786612334177

1-4438-1157-2

OCLC:

827949380