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Informationen zum Autor David Andress is Reader in Modern European History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of numerous works on the French Revolution, including French Society in Revolution, 1789-1799 (1999), Massacre at the Champ de Mars (2000) and The Terror (2005). David Andress is Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth, and one of Britain's finest interpreters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His books include The French Revolution and the People, The Terror, 1789 and Cultural Dementia: How the West Has Lost Its History and Risks Losing Everything Else . Klappentext The French Revolution of 1789 was the central event of modern history. Although the Revolution started with the resistance of a minority to absolutist government, it soon spread to involve the whole nation, including the men and women who made up by far the largest part of it - the peasantry, as well as townspeople and craftsmen, the poor and those living on the margins of society. The French Revolution and the People is a portrait of the common people of France, in the towns and in the countryside; in Paris and Lyon; in the Vendée, Brittany, Provence. Popular grievances and reactions affected the events and outcome of the Revolution at all stages, and in turn everyone in France was affected by the Revolution. The French Revolution and the People tells a vivid story of conflict, violence and death, as the injustices of the Ancien Régime were thrown off. Zusammenfassung The French Revolution of 1789 was the central event of modern history. This work paints a portrait of the common people of France! in the towns and in the countryside; in Paris and Lyon; in the Vendee! Britanny! Provence. It is a story of conflict! violence and death! but there were winners as well as losers and not all the suffering was in vain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Peasants 2 Artisans 3 The Margins 4 From Crisis to Constitution 5 Collapse and Revolt 6 Revolution and Reordering 7 The Widening Gulf 8 The Politics of Conflict 9 War and Republic 10 The Year of Civil War 11 Terror and Reaction 12 Revolution against the People? Notes Bibliography Index...
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David Andress is Reader in Modern European History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of numerous works on the French Revolution, including French Society in Revolution, 1789-1799 (1999), Massacre at the Champ de Mars (2000) and The Terror (2005).
David Andress is Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth, and one of Britain's finest interpreters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His books include
The French Revolution and the People, The Terror, 1789 and
Cultural Dementia: How the West Has Lost Its History and Risks Losing Everything Else.
