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Aristocracy and its enemies in the age of revolution /

Describes how the French revolutionaries tried to abolish the nobility, analysing the intellectual roots of hostility to nobles, the steps by which revolutionaries turned against aristocracy, the impact of persecution, emigration, confiscation, and Terror, and the long-term consequences of these dev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doyle, William, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aristocracy ascendant : the world of eighteenth-century nobility
  • Ideologies of inequality
  • Ageless antagonisms : the limits of discontent
  • Aristocracy avoided : America and the Cincinnati
  • Straws in the wind : the breakdown of the old order
  • Aristocracy attacked : the rise and fall of the noble order
  • Aristocracy abolished : the destruction of noble power
  • Ci-devants, 1790-1792
  • Persecution, 1792-1799
  • Ambiguous aftermaths.