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Informationen zum Autor Leora Auslander is Professor of European Social History at the University of Chicago and author of the critically acclaimed! Taste and Power. Zusammenfassung The revolutions in the England, North America, and France ushered in the modern political age. Cultural Revolutions analyzes the place of material culture, ritual, and everyday life during these revolutions, providing a fresh and engaging interpretation of the strategies used to transform people from monarchists into republicans.The author shows how, faced with the challenge of persuading large populations to alter their previous convictions and loyalties, revolutionaries in all three countries turned to the power of aesthetics. From the banning of dancing in Cromwell's England, to the 'homespun' clothing of Revolutionary America, to France's new calendar and naming systems, Auslander assesses how daily habits and tastes were altered in the interests of political change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. The Politics of the Everyday: Political and Cultural Revolution Chapter 2. Culture and Politics in Early Modern Courtly and Colonial Society Chapter 3. The Republican Challenge in mid-Seventeenth-Century England Chapter 4. The American Revolution: The Politics of the Everyday in the Transition from Colony to Nation Chapter 5. Making French Republicans: Revolutionary Transformation of the Everyday Conclusion. Legacies: Culture in the Modern Nation-State Bibliography/Guide to Further Reading
