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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Doyle, William, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Aristocracy (Political science) > France > History > 18th century.
Nobility > France > History > 18th century.
Aristocracy (Political science) > France > Public opinion > History > 18th century.
Nobility > France > Public opinion > History > 18th century.
Public opinion > France > History > 18th century.
Aristocratie > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Aristocratie > France > Opinion publique > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Opinion publique > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY.
Aristocracy (Political science)
Intellectual life
Nobility
Nobility > Public opinion
Public opinion
Social aspects
Social conditions
Adel.
Publieke opinie.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Social aspects.
France > Social conditions > 18th century.
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
France > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
France
Frankrijk.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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