Revolutionary Thought After the Paris Commune, 18711885

The first comprehensive account of revolutionary and socialist thought after the 1871 Paris Commune, France's last nineteenth-century revolution.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. The Paris Commune and Accounting for Failure: 1. The commune as Quotidian event; 2. The commune as violent trauma; Part II. Revolution and the Republic: 3. The French revolutionary tradition; 4. Rehabilitating revolution; Part III. Marx, Marxism, and International Socialism: 5. Texts in translation; 6. The origins of Marxism in modern France; Part IV. Empire and Internationalism: 7. Deportation, imperialism, and the Republican State; 8. Exile and universal solidarity; Conclusion.

About the author

Julia Nicholls is Lecturer in French and European Studies at King's College London. An intellectual historian of modern France, her research focuses on ideas of freedom and revolution, subjection, and social exclusion. She is particularly interested in how these ideas travelled across European borders and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Nicholls, Julia (King's College London) Nicholls, Julia (King''s College London) Nicholls
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781108499262
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49926-2
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, Europe, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Western, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Western Europe, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Western Continental Europe