Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution / Lynn Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Lynn, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture--France--History--18th century.

Politics and culture.

Social classes--France--History--18th century.

Social classes.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Social aspects.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Edition:

Twentieth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2004]

Summary:

When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables

List of Plates

List of Maps

Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Acknowledgments to the 1984 Edition

Chronology

Abbreviations

Introduction: Interpreting the French Revolution

1. The Rhetoric of Revolution

2. Symbolic Forms of Political Practice

3. The Imagery of Radicalism

4. The Political Geography of Revolution

5. The New Political Class

6. Outsiders, Culture Brokers, and Political Networks

Conclusion: Revolution in Political Culture

Appendix A: Correlation Matrix of Selected Political, Economic, and Demographic Variables

Appendix B: Occupational Analysis of City Councillors in Amiens, Bordeaux, Nancy, and Toulouse

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520931046

0520931041

OCLC:

961059107