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A rhetoric of bourgeois revolution : the Abbé Sieyes and What is the Third Estate? /

What Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course. It also launched its author, the Abbé Sieyes, on a remarkable political career that spanned the entire revolutionary decade. Sieyes both opened the revolut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sewell, William H., Jr., 1940- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.
Colección:Bicentennial reflections on the French Revolution.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Editor's Introduction ; Preface ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; Chapter 2. What Is the Third Estate? ; Chapter 3. Political Economy, Social Contract, and Representation: The Foundations of Sieyes's Political Thought ; Chapter 4. What Is Privilege? A Rhetoric of Amnesia ; Chapter 5. What Is the Citizen? The Denial of Political Equality ; Chapter 6. An Uncontrollable Revolution ; Epilogue: The Paradoxical History of Sieyes's Rhetorical Devices ; Bibliography ; Index.