Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution - Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Informationen zum Autor Lynn Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California! Los Angeles. She is the author of The Family Romance of the French Revolution (California! 1992) and the editor (with Victoria E. Bonnell) of Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (California! 1999). She was President of the American Historical Association in 2002-2003. Klappentext A landmark work of French Revolution scholarship, now in its 20th anniversary edition. Zusammenfassung Reframes the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes to its central political significance. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables List of Plates Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition Acknowledgements to the 1984 Edition Chronology Abbreviations Introduction: Interpreting the French Revolution PART I: THE POETICS OF POWER 1. The Rhetoric of Revolution 2. Symbolic Forms of Political Practice 3. The Imagery of Radicalism PART II: THE SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICS 4. The Political Geography of Revolution 5. The New Political Class 6. Outsiders! Culture Brokers! and Political Networks Conclusion: Revolution in Political Culture Appendix A: Correlation Matrix of Selected Political! Economic! and Demographic Variables Appendix B: Occupational Analysis of City Councillors in Amiens! Bordeaux! Nancy! and Toulouse Index

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Hunt, Lynn Avery Hunt, Hunt Lynn
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2004
• EAN: 9780520241565
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24156-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799