The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0312108028 ISBN 13: 9780312108021

Verlag: Bedford, 1996

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A rich collection of 38 primary documents covering the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France. There is an extensive introductory essay which provides the context for the documents and discusses the controversies over citizenship and rights in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France. Many of the documents have never been published before in English and they allow the students to read and analyse firsthand the many debates over human rights engendered by the French Revolution.

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LYNN HUNT, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California at Los Angeles, received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is the author of Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France (1978), Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984), and The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992); she is also the co-author of Telling the Truth About History (1994), co-author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (2001, with CD-ROM), editor of The New Cultural History (1989), editor and translator of The French Revolution and Human Rights (1996), and co-editor of Histories: French Constructions of the Past (1995), Beyond the Cultural Turn (1999), and Human Rights and Revolutions (2000). She has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as president of the American Historical Association in 2002.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bedford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312108028
• ISBN 13: 9780312108021
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Herausgeber: Hunt Lynn
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