Echoes of the Marseillaise - Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution

Informationen zum Autor ERIC JOHN ERNEST HOBSBAWM, CH FRSL FBA (1917-2012) was emeritus professor of history at Birbeck College, University of London, emeritus university professor of politics and society at the New School for Social Research, and a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He authored more than twenty books, including the collection The Invention of Tradition and the tetralogy The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.   Klappentext E.J. Hobsbawm’s classic historiographic study explores the perception of the French Revolution over the past two centuries. He considers how and why different generations and political factions have recounted it in radically different ways: as proletarian or as bourgeois, as ephemeral or as world-changing, as enlightened progress or as violent anarchy.  Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: A Revolution of the Middle Class Chapter 2: Beyond the Bourgeoisie Chapter 3: From One Centenary to Another Chapter 4: Surviving Revision Appendix Notes Index

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• Authors: E. J. Hobsbawm, Eric Hobsbawm
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781978802377
• ISBN: 978-1-978802-37-7
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Mason Welch Gross Lecture; Mason Welch Gross Lecture; Mason Welch Gross Lecture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous