Before the Deluge : Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution /
Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to de...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2009]
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Edición: | Course Book |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Facing the Future
- 2. Montesquieu and the Idea of Monarchy
- 3. Morality and Politics in a Divided World
- 4. Industry and Representative Government
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index