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Revolutionary Ideas : An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre /

Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers-that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, econ...

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Autor principal: Israel, Jonathan, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Prologue; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Revolution of the Press (1788-90); CHAPTER 3 From Estates-General to National Assembly (April-June 1789); CHAPTER 4 The Rights of Man: Summer and Autumn 1789; CHAPTER 5 Democratizing the Revolution; CHAPTER 6 Deadlock (November 1790-July 1791); CHAPTER 7 War with the Church (1788-92); CHAPTER 8 The Feuillant Revolution (July 1791-April 1792); CHAPTER 9 The "General Revolution" Begins (1791-92); CHAPTER 10 The Revolutionary Summer of 1792.
  • CHAPTER 11 Republicans Divided (September 1792-March 1793)CHAPTER 12 The "General Revolution" from Valmy to the Fall of Mainz (1792-93); CHAPTER 13 The World's First Democratic Constitution (1793); CHAPTER 14 Education: Securing the Revolution; CHAPTER 15 Black Emancipation; CHAPTER 16 Robespierre's Putsch (June 1793); CHAPTER 17 The Summer of 1793: Overturning the Revolution's Core Values; CHAPTER 18 De-Christianization (1793-94); CHAPTER 19 "The Terror" (September 1793-March 1794); CHAPTER 20 The Terror's Last Months (March-July 1794); CHAPTER 21 Thermidor.
  • CHAPTER 22 Post-Thermidor (1795-97)CHAPTER 23 The "General Revolution" (1795-1800): Holland, Italy, and the Levant; CHAPTER 24 The Failed Revolution (1797-99); CHAPTER 25 Conclusion: The Revolution as the Outcome of the Radical Enlightenment; Cast of Main Participants; Notes; Bibliography; Index.