Inventing the French Revolution ` Paperback: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century: 16 (Ideas in Context, Series Number 16) - Softcover

Baker, Keith Michael

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ISBN 10: 0521385784 ISBN 13: 9780521385787

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1990

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Keith Michael Baker, a leading authority on the ideological origins of the French Revolution, explores the question 'How did the French Revolution become thinkable?' in this wide-ranging collection of essays. The author analyses the new politics of contestation that transformed the traditional political culture of the Old Regime during its last decades.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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How did the French Revolution become thinkable? Keith Michael Baker, a leading authority on the ideological origins of the French Revolution, explores this question in his wide-ranging collection of essays. Analyzing the new politics of contestation that transformed the traditional political culture of the Old Regime during its last decades, Baker revises our historical map of the political space in which the French Revolution took form. Some essays study the ways in which the revolutionaries' break with the past was prepared by competition between agents and critics of absolute monarchy to control the cultural resources and political meanings of French history; by the contending political vocabularies in which the French sought before 1789 to reconstitute their body politic; and by the invention of "public opinion" as a new form of political authority displacing absolute rule. Others trace to the conceptual improvisation of revolutionary notions of "representation", "constitution", "sovereignty" -- and of "the French Revolution" itself -- the ambiguities, tensions, and contradictions that were to drive the revolutionary dynamic in subsequent years. The result is a substantial and unified set of studies, stimulating renewed reflection on one of the central themes in modern European history.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521385784
• ISBN 13: 9780521385787
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 382
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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