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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 developments for the nobility. - ;Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and nobilities. In the eighteenth century their power seemed better entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely. 'Aristocracy' became the t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 371 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-356) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191568275 0191568279 |