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The Notables and the Nation : The Political Schooling of the French, 1787-1788 /
The ending of absolute, centralized monarchy and the beginning of political combat between nobles and commoners make the years 1787 to 1788 the first stage of the French Revolution. In a detailed examination of this critical transition, Vivian Gruder examines how the French people became engaged in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2008]
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| Colección: | Harvard Historical Studies ;
157 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Map of France, 1786
- Introduction
- I. The Assembly of Notables: February-May 1787, November-December 1788
- 1. Paths to Political Consciousness: The Notables in the First Assembly, February-May 1787
- 2. Privilege, Property, and Participation: A Mutation in Elite Political Culture
- 3. The Society of Orders at Its Demise: The Vision of the Elite at the End of the Ancien Régime
- II. The Media and the Public: Networks of Information, Opinion, Instruction
- 4. Political News as Coded Messages: The Parisian and Provincial Press, 1787-1788
- 5. The Foreign French-Language Press: Gazettes
- 6. The Foreign French-Language Press: Journals of Opinion
- 7. Manuscript Newsletters-Nouvelles à la Main
- 8. Pamphlets and Other Writings: A Network of Political Education and Polemics
- 9. Readers and Reading Sites: The Public and the Network of the Printed and Written Media
- 10. The Verbal, the Visual, and the Festive
- III. At the Grass Roots
- 11. "Popular" Pamphlets: Political Messages to the Public
- 12. Can We Hear the Voices of Peasants?
- 13. The Grass Roots: Local Judges and Community Assemblies Speak Out
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Chronology
- Appendix B. Contemporary Accounts of Fêtes, 1787-1788
- Notes
- Index