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Book The French Revolution Seen from the Right

Download or read book The French Revolution Seen from the Right written by Paul Harold Beik and published by American Philosophical Society Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first product of an investigation of the conflicting social theories of the French Revolution. The writings of these men disclosed several unexplored connections between the old regime and the contemporary world. Their testimony offered an unaccustomed view of the French Revolution and an illustration of the revolution's interaction with the main currents of European thought. Contents: (1) Who will defend the old regime?; (2) The shock of 1789; (3) Deputies of the right; (4) Resistance to the constitutional monarchy; (5) Adversity; (6) Joseph de Maistre; (7) Louis de Bonald; (8) Rene de Chateaubrand; (9) Troubled orthodoxy; (10) Social theories in motion; References. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

Book The French Revolution  From its origins to 1793

Download or read book The French Revolution From its origins to 1793 written by Georges Lefebvre and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Furies

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  • Author : Arno J. Mayer
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2013-05-16
  • ISBN : 1400823439
  • Pages : 735 pages

Download or read book The Furies written by Arno J. Mayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great romance and fear of bloody revolution--strange blend of idealism and terror--have been superseded by blind faith in the bloodless expansion of human rights and global capitalism. Flying in the face of history, violence is dismissed as rare, immoral, and counterproductive. Arguing against this pervasive wishful thinking, the distinguished historian Arno J. Mayer revisits the two most tumultuous and influential revolutions of modern times: the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Although these two upheavals arose in different environments, they followed similar courses. The thought and language of Enlightenment France were the glories of western civilization; those of tsarist Russia's intelligentsia were on its margins. Both revolutions began as revolts vowed to fight unreason, injustice, and inequality; both swept away old regimes and defied established religions in societies that were 85% peasant and illiterate; both entailed the terrifying return of repressed vengeance. Contrary to prevalent belief, Mayer argues, ideologies and personalities did not control events. Rather, the tide of violence overwhelmed the political actors who assumed power and were rudderless. Even the best plans could not stem the chaos that at once benefited and swallowed them. Mayer argues that we have ignored an essential part of all revolutions: the resistances to revolution, both domestic and foreign, which help fuel the spiral of terror. In his sweeping yet close comparison of the world's two transnational revolutions, Mayer follows their unfolding--from the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Bolshevik Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Masses; the escalation of the initial violence into the reign of terror of 1793-95 and of 1918-21; the dismemberment of the hegemonic churches and religion of both societies; the "externalization" of the terror through the Napoleonic wars; and its "internalization" in Soviet Russia in the form of Stalin's "Terror in One Country." Making critical use of theory, old and new, Mayer breaks through unexamined assumptions and prevailing debates about the attributes of these particular revolutions to raise broader and more disturbing questions about the nature of revolutionary violence attending new foundations.

Book The American Counterrevolution

Download or read book The American Counterrevolution written by Larry E. Tise and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refutation of virtually the entire historiography surrounding the outcomes of the Revolution, this epic narrative traces the shift from the ideas of liberty to the politics of order during the difficult period between 1783 and1800. 70 illustrations.

Book Asymmetrical Concepts after Reinhart Koselleck

Download or read book Asymmetrical Concepts after Reinhart Koselleck written by Kay Junge and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, their role in structuring the human world has never been an object of detailed research. 35 years ago Reinhart Koselleck sketched out the historical semantics of the oppositions »Hellenes«/»barbarians«, »Christians«/»pagans« and »Übermensch«/»Untermensch«, but his insights, though eagerly cited, have been rarely developed in a systematic fashion. This volume intends to remedy this situation by bringing together a small number of scholars at the crossroads of history, sociology, literary criticism, linguistics, political science and international studies in order to elaborate on Koselleck's notion of asymmetric counter-concepts and adapt it to current research needs.

Book Encountering Revolution

Download or read book Encountering Revolution written by Ashli White and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American history. For postrevolutionary Americans, the Haitian uprising laid bare the contradiction between democratic principles and the practice of slavery. For thirteen years, between 1791 and 1804, slaves and free people of color in Saint-Domingue battled for equal rights in the manner of the French Revolution. As white and mixed-race refugees escaped to the safety of U.S. cities, Americans were forced to confront the paradox of being a slaveholding republic, recognizing their own possible destiny in the predicament of the Haitian slaveholders. Historian Ashli White examines the ways Americans—black and white, northern and southern, Federalist and Democratic Republican, pro- and antislavery—pondered the implications of the Haitian Revolution. Encountering Revolution convincingly situates the formation of the United States in a broader Atlantic context. It shows how the very presence of Saint-Dominguan refugees stirred in Americans as many questions about themselves as about the future of slaveholding, stimulating some of the earliest debates about nationalism in the early republic.

Book The Counter revolution

Download or read book The Counter revolution written by Jacques Léon Godechot and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Counter-Revolution: Doctrine and Action, 1789-1804, will be forthcoming.

Book The French Idea of History

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  • Author : Carolina Armenteros
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2011-07-07
  • ISBN : 080144943X
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book The French Idea of History written by Carolina Armenteros and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maistre emerges from this deeply learned book as the crucial bridge between the Enlightenment and the historicized thought of the nineteenth century.

Book Joseph de Maistre and his European Readers

Download or read book Joseph de Maistre and his European Readers written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the publication of Isaiah Berlin's essay on Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), the Savoyard philosopher has been known primarily in the English-speaking world as a precursor of fascism. The essays in this volume challenge this view. Disclosing the inaccuracies and limitations of Berlin's account, they illustrate Maistre's colossally diverse European posterity. Far from an inflexible ideologist, Maistre was a versatile and deeply modern thinker who attracted interpreters across the political spectrum. Through the centuries, Maistre's passionate Europeanism has contributed to his popularity from Madrid to Moscow. And in our times, when religion is re-asserting itself as a source of public reason, his theorization of the encounter between tradition and modernity is lending his work ever more urgent relevance. Cover illustration by Matthieu Manche

Book Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions

Download or read book Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions written by Jane Landers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Through prodigious archival research, Landers alters our vision of the breadth and extent of the Age of Revolution, and our understanding of its actors.

Book Slavery  War  and Revolution

Download or read book Slavery War and Revolution written by David Patrick Geggus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Universal Emancipation

Download or read book Universal Emancipation written by Nick Nesbitt and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going beyond the selective emancipation of white adult male property owners, the Haitian Revolution is of vital importance, the author argues, in thinking today about the urgent problems of social justice, human rights, imperialism, torture, and, above all, human freedom. He explores the invention of universal emancipation both in the context of the Age of Enlightenment (Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel) and in relation to certain key figures (Ranciere, Laclau, Habermas) and trends (such as the turn to ethics, human rights, and universalism) in contemporary political philosophy.

Book    m  Bergasse  au sujet de ses R  flexions sur l Acte constitutionnel  signed L  de L

Download or read book m Bergasse au sujet de ses R flexions sur l Acte constitutionnel signed L de L written by Lugan de Laroserie and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Considerations on the nature of the French Revolution     Translated from the French

Download or read book Considerations on the nature of the French Revolution Translated from the French written by Jacques François MALLET-DUPAN and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book More Moderate Side of Joseph de Maistre

Download or read book More Moderate Side of Joseph de Maistre written by Cara Camcastle and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The More Moderate Side of Joseph de Maistre expertly contextualizes his work within the historical events and intellectual debates that emerged in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Camcastle sheds new light on Maistre's conception of government as being made up of groups in dynamic counterbalance and on the system of inconvertible paper money that he developed a century before a similar system was universally adopted in the twentieth century. Camcastle provides a more complete and balanced picture of Maistre's political writings through original interpretations of his published works and translations from French and Italian into English of previously unpublished writings that substantiate key points.

Book A M  Bergasse  au sujet de ses r  flexions sur l Acte constitutionnel

Download or read book A M Bergasse au sujet de ses r flexions sur l Acte constitutionnel written by L. de L. (maire de la ville de V.) and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: