Farewell, Revolution - The Historians' Feud: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989 (Cornell Paperbacks) - Softcover

Kaplan, Steven L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801482712 ISBN 13: 9780801482717

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 1996

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Steven Laurence Kaplan reconstructs and analyzes the loud and bitter arguments over the meaning of the French Revolution which have consumed French intellectuals in recent years. Kaplan recounts the contemporary debates over the meaning of the Revolution, tracing the impact of the historians' bitter quarrel, from Parisian academic circles to the public arenas of the bicentennial celebration. He considers the roles played in those arguments by three of France's most influential historians: François Furet, Pierre Chaunu, and Michel Vovelle.

In 1993, Editions Fayard published Steven Laurence Kaplan's controversial history of the bicentennial commemoration of the French Revolution. Here available in English is one of the most polemical parts of that work, Kaplan's account of the contemporary debates over the meaning of the Revolution. Farewell, Revolution: The Historians' Feud, France, 1789/1989 traces the impact of the historians' bitter quarrel, from Parisian academic circles to the public arenas of the bicentennial celebration.

Kaplan considers in intimate detail the roles played in those arguments by three of France's most influential historians: François Furet, Pierre Chaunu, and Michel Vovelle. As he reenacts the feud, Kaplan invites a reassessment of the relationship between the writing of history and the practice of politics. His book suggests that the charged relationship between history and politics that enlivened the bicentennial may be the Revolution's most enduring legacy.

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Steven Laurence Kaplan is Goldwin Smith Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of the complementary work, Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989, also from Cornell.

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In 1993, Editions Fayard published Steven Laurence Kaplan's controversial history of the bicentennial commemoration of the French Revolution. Here available in English is one of the most polemical parts of that work, Kaplan's account of the contemporary debates over the meaning of the Revolution. Farewell, Revolution: The Historians' Feud, France, 1789-1989 traces the impact of the historians' bitter quarrel, from Parisian academic circles to the public arenas of the bicentennial celebration.

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• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801482712
• ISBN 13: 9780801482717
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
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