French Society and the Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Douglas Johnson is a retired professor of religion and philosophy. He is the author of The Great Jesus Debates (2005). Klappentext Professor Johnson has selected essays which cover a wide spectrum of time, place and social class. Zusammenfassung Taken as a whole the essays in this volume illustrate the outstanding contribution made to French Revolutionary scholarship by British and American authors. Professor Johnson has selected essays which cover a wide spectrum of time! place and social class but are vitally concerned to describe and explain the social reality of revolution in its various phases. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Was there an aristocratic reaction in pre-Revolutionary France? (no. 57, November 1972) William Doyle; 2. The Revolution and the rural community in eighteenth century Brittany (no. 62, February 1974) T. J. A. LE Goff, D. M. G. Sutherland; 3. The high enlightenment and the low-life of literature in pre-Revolutionary France (no. 51, May 1971) Robert Darnton; 4. Nobles, Bourgeois and the origins of the French Revolution (no. 60, August 1973) Colin Lucas; 5. The survival of the nobility during the French Revolution (no. 37 July 1967) Robert Forster; 6. Women in Revolution, 1789-1796 (no. 53, November 1971) Olwen Hufton; 7. The justices of the peace of Revolutionary Paris, September 1792-November 1794 (Frimaire Year III) (no. 52, August 1971) Richard M. Andrews; 8. The condition of the poor in Revolutionary Bordeaux (no. 59, May 1973) Alan Forrest; 9. Resistance to the Revolution in Western France (no. 63, May 1974) Harvey Mitchell; 10. The white terror of 1815 in the department of the gard (no. 58, February 1973) Gwynn Lewis; Index.

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• Authors: Douglas Johnson
• Assisted by: Douglas Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521089616
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08961-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Past and Present Publications; Past and Present Publications
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period), C 1700 To C 1800, French Revolution, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions