France Before The Revolution

Author : J. H. Shennan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136161582

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France Before the Revolution by J. H. Shennan Pdf

This fully revised second edition takes account of historical work produced during the last decade. Covering the period between Louis XIV's death in 1715 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, it discusses: * France's accomplishments in international affairs, commercial expansion, and intellectual and artistic life * the significance of long-term political, social and economic forces in causing the Revolution * how the changing perception of government, from one of divine-right kingship towards the idea of a national enterprise, ultimately undermined the old regime.

Author : Dylan Rees,Duncan Townson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781510457522

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Access to History: France in Revolution 1774–1815 Sixth Edition by Dylan Rees,Duncan Townson Pdf

Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over 30 years. Updated to meet the demands of today's A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to History titles includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners' reports, free online activity worksheets and contextual information that underpins students' understanding of the period. - Develop strong historical knowledge: in-depth analysis of each topic is both authoritative and accessible - Build historical skills and understanding: downloadable activity worksheets can be used independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork and homework - Learn, remember and connect important events and people: an introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines and links to additional online resources support lessons, revision and coursework - Achieve exam success: practical advice matched to the requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the lessons learnt from previous exams - Engage with sources, interpretations and the latest historical research: students will evaluate a rich collection of visual and written materials, plus key debates that examine the views of different historians

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:4057664123589

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The State of France Before the Revolution of 1789 by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

The book I now publish is not a history of the French Revolution; that history has been written with too much success for me to attempt to write it again. This volume is a study on the Revolution. The French people made, in 1789, the greatest effort which was ever attempted by any nation to cut, so to speak, their destiny in halves, and to separate by an abyss that which they had heretofore been from that which they sought to become hereafter. For this purpose, they took all sorts of precautions to carry nothing of their past with them into their new condition; they submitted to every species of constraint in order to fashion themselves otherwise than their fathers were; they neglected nothing which could efface their identity.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : France
ISBN : YALE:39002025957110

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On the State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010213986

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The Old Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271064901

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Priests of the French Revolution by Joseph F. Byrnes Pdf

The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.

Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192853967

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The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by William Doyle Pdf

Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Litres
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041269609

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The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011935439

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The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375176389

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On the State of Society in France before the Revolution of 1789 by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

Author : Carine Lounissi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319752891

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Thomas Paine and the French Revolution by Carine Lounissi Pdf

This book explores Thomas Paine's French decade, from the publication of the first part of Rights of Man in the spring of 1791 to his return trip to the United States in the fall of 1802. It examines Paine's multifarious activities during this period as a thinker, writer, member of the French Convention, lobbyist, adviser to French governments, officious diplomat and propagandist. Using previously neglected sources and archival material, Carine Lounissi demonstrates both how his republicanism was challenged, bolstered and altered by this French experience, and how his positions at key moments of the history of the French experiment forced major participants in the Revolution to defend or question the kind of regime or of republic they wished to set up. As a member of the Lafayette circle when writing the manuscript of Rights of Man, of the Girondin constellation in the Convention, one of the few democrats who defended universal suffrage after Thermidor, and as a member of the Constitutional Circle which promoted a kind of republic which did not match his ideas, Paine baffled his contemporaries and still puzzles the present-day scholar. This book intends to offer a new perspective on Paine, and on how this major agent of revolutions contributed to the debate on the French Revolution both in France and outside France.

Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691241524

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France Before 1789 by Jon Elster Pdf

"France before 1789 presents the main features of the prodigiously complex social system of the ancien regime which proceeded the French Revolution. In doing so Jon Elster goes beyond formal institutions to show how they worked in practice. He draws on a host of examples and contemporary texts to illuminate the perverse and sometimes pathological effects of this system and seeks to provide a detailed analysis of the political institutions that undergirded it. Whereas Tocqueville, in his famous analysis of the ancient regime, wanted to understand the old regime as a prelude to revolution, Elster views it as a prelude to constitution-making prompted by and intended to resolve these perversities. He views these as overlapping, yet important enough to render distinct. In addition to defending a particular set of substantive propositions about the conditions which led to the Constituent Assembly, Elster argues for a specific methodological approach to history, which emphasizes supplementing the historian's craft with approaches from the social sciences. Ultimately, he does not claim to answer the historians' questions better than they do. But he does aspire to ask and sometimes answer questions that historians have not formulated in order to better understand one of the most significant examples of collective decision-making history offers us"--

Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195389418

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Modern France by Vanessa R. Schwartz Pdf

The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.

Author : Vĩnh Long Ngô,Ngo Vinh Long
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0231076797

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Before the Revolution by Vĩnh Long Ngô,Ngo Vinh Long Pdf

During the French colonial period (1900-1945), Vietnamese peasants wrote vigorously about the effects of French policies on their living conditions. The vast majority of their writings were censored or contradicted by the published works of French and Vietnamese officials, and none is currenty in print. Ngo Vinh Long presents a realistic portrait of the Vietnamese determination and resiliency that brought down both the French and the American regimes. He describes the effects of French land policy on the peasants and the resulting problems in tenant farming and sharecropping, as well as peasant reaction to taxes, tax collections, usury, government agarian credit programs, commerce, and industry. He also translates previously unavailable texts that detail the emotions of the Vietnamese people with regard to the French occupation. For the Morningside Edition, Dr. Long has written a new preface in which he describes new scholarship and changes during the last fifteen years.

Author : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : France
ISBN : OXFORD:N10169222

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Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution by Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Pdf