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The notables and the nation : the political schooling of the French, 1787-1788 /
The ending of absolute 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 this detailed examination, Gruder looks at how the French people became engaged in a movement that culminated in demands for the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Harvard historical studies ;
v. 157. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. The Assembly of Notables : February-May 1787, November-December 1788. Paths to political consciousness : the notables in the First Assembly, February-May 1787 ; Privilege, property, and participation : a mutation in elite political culture ; The Society of Orders at its demise : the vision of the elite at the end of the Ancien Régime
- pt. II. The media and the public : networks of information, opinion, instruction ; Political news as coded messages : the Parisian and provincial press, 1787-1788 ; The French foreign-language press : gazettes ; The French foreign-language press : journals of opinion ; Manuscript newsletters : nouvelles à la main ; Pamphlets and other writings : a network of political education and polemics ; Readers and reading sites : the public and the network of the printed and written media ; The verbal, the visual and the festive
- pt. III. At the grass roots. "Popular" pamphlets : political messages to the public ; Can we hear the voices of peasants? ; The grass roots : local judges and community assemblies speak out
- Conclusion
- Appendix I: Chronology
- Appendix II: Contemporary accounts of fêtes, 1787-1788.