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The French Revolution : events and ideas / Michael Sonenscher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sonenscher, Michael, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France--Civilization--1789-1830.
- France.
- France--Intellectual life--18th century.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Using ideas as evidence, this book offers a new social, cultural and political history of the French Revolution. Michael Sonenscher draws on neglected aspects of eighteenth-century intellectual and political life and thought, demonstrating the importance of ideas for making connections between historical explanation and historical narrative"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : ideas as evidence
- Concepts of revolution
- Causes and causation
- Cutting the cable : Rousseau, Sieyès and the idea of a representative system
- The cement of society : the republican alternative to the representative system
- Constituent power and political power
- The failure of the Feuillants
- The sans-culottes
- Robespierre and the politics of the Terror
- The war for the world : imperial power and social science
- Conclusion : the legacy.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-46389-6
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