French Revolutions For Beginners

Author : Michael J. LaMonica
Publisher : For Beginners, LLC
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781934389911

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French Revolutions For Beginners by Michael J. LaMonica Pdf

Allons enfants de la Patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé! “Arise children of the Fatherland, the day of glory has arrived!” These opening lines to La Marseillaise, France’s famously stirring and evocative national anthem, capture perfectly the passion, fear, and frenetic energy of Republicanism’s sanguinary birth on French soil. Through the violence of the Revolutions the reign of the Bourbon monarchy came to an end and modern France was born. French Revolutions For Beginners examines the several bloody revolutions and counter-revolutions throughout the course of the 19th century and the constant upheavals and disruptions in France’s ever changing political landscape from 1789–1900. While most people have some familiarity with names like Louis XVI and Napoleon, the details of what exactly happened during the French Revolution—apart from pithy royal pronouncements about cake eating and the ever-falling blade of the guillotine—are often difficult to understand, and for good reason: there were 15 changes of government in less than a century! The legacy of the French Revolutions remains with us today; we see it all over the world when an oppressed people rise up against an authoritarian regime demanding their rights as citizens be recognized. French Revolutions For Beginners presents the major political figures, events and hot-button political issues of this extremely violent, chaotic, confusing—but exciting—period in a way that is accessible, interesting, and fun to both history buffs and the neophyte alike.

Author : Martin McCrory,Robert Moulder
Publisher : Writers & Readers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0863160158

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French Revolution for Beginners by Martin McCrory,Robert Moulder Pdf

Describes eighteenth-century France and the social conditions that led to the Revolution, and looks at the Revolution's leaders, goals, philosophy, and organization

Author : Peter Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780741574

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The French Revolution by Peter Davies Pdf

Handy introduction to one of the most significant and studied events in world history Blending narrative with analysis, Peter Davies explores a time of obscene opulence, mass starvation, and ground-breaking ideals; where the streets of Paris ran red with blood, and the numbers requiring execution precipitated the invention of the guillotine. Davies brings the subject up to date by considering the legacy of the revolution and how it continues to resonate in today's France.

Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691206936

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The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre Pdf

The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history "from below"—a Marxist approach. Here, he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.

Author : Jeremy Popkin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465096671

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A New World Begins by Jeremy Popkin Pdf

From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and Black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror. Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins will stand as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.

Author : Julia Douthwaite Viglione,Antoinette Sol,Catriona Seth
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294010

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Teaching Representations of the French Revolution by Julia Douthwaite Viglione,Antoinette Sol,Catriona Seth Pdf

In many ways the French Revolution--a series of revolutions, in fact, whose end has arguably not yet arrived--is modernity in action. Beginning in reform, it blossomed into wholesale attempts to remake society, uprooting the clergy and aristocracy, valorizing mass movements, and setting secular ideologies, including nationalism, in motion. Unusually manifold and complicated, the revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today--terrorism, propaganda, extremism--with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing for students a world that seems always unmoored and in crisis. The volume supports the teaching of the revolution's ongoing project across geographic areas (from Haiti, Latin America, and New Orleans to Spain, Germany, and Greece), governing ideologies (human rights, secularism, liberty), and literatures (from well-known to newly rediscovered texts). Interdisciplinary, intercultural, and insurgent, the volume has an energy that reflects its subject.

Author : Roger Chartier
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0801854369

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On the Edge of the Cliff by Roger Chartier Pdf

Throughout, Chartier keeps his focus on historians who have stressed the relations between the products of discourse and social practices.

Author : Ian Davidson
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847659361

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The French Revolution by Ian Davidson Pdf

The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in Versailles. There, the nobles, clergy and commoners of France had just declared themselves a republic, toppling a rotten system of aristocratic privilege and altering the course of history forever. The Revolution was led not by angry mobs, but by the best and brightest of France's growing bourgeoisie: young, educated, ambitious. Their aim was not to destroy, but to build a better state. In just three months they drew up a Declaration of the Rights of Man, which was to become the archetype of all subsequent Declarations worldwide, and they instituted a system of locally elected administration for France which still survives today. They were determined to create an entirely new system of government, based on rights, equality and the rule of law. In the first three years of the Revolution they went a long way toward doing so. Then came Robespierre, the Terror and unspeakable acts of barbarism. In a clear, dispassionate and fast-moving narrative, Ian Davidson shows how and why the Revolutionaries, in just five years, spiralled from the best of the Enlightenment to tyranny and the Terror. The book reminds us that the Revolution was both an inspiration of the finest principles of a new democracy and an awful warning of what can happen when idealism goes wrong.

Author : Albert Goodwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317189893

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The French Revolution by Albert Goodwin Pdf

Originally published in 1956, this masterly essay weaves together the results of research with an independence of judgement which could only come from a long-established expert in the field of Revolutionary studies. The book examines the causes of the French Revolution and the economics involved in the weakness of France’s pre-revolutionary form of government as well as the administrative complexity which was an effective stumbling block in the way of monarchy. As well as charting key events in the revolution, the conclusion discusses the significance of the French Revolution in the context of other revolutions in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Carine Lounissi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Tim Moore
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781446414972

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French Revolutions by Tim Moore Pdf

Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting even in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1098830792

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French Revolution by Hourly History Pdf

French RevolutionDuring the late years of the eighteenth century, the spirit of Enlightenment thinking and revolution were in the air. The world was changing, moving away from ingrained beliefs about religion, reason, society, and the rights of the individual and turning more towards the laws of nature as interpreted by the scientific method. Nowhere was the influence of this radical new way of thinking more apparent than in France, and the upheaval this caused would come to bloody fruition in the form of revolution. Inside you will read about...- An Environment of Revolution - Rise of the Third Estate - The Rights of Man - Vive la Revolution! - Reign of Terror - The Last Revolutionaries And more! Explore the triumph and terror that existed in France during the French Revolution. Review the causes and the lasting effects brought about during this tumultuous time period when the common people of France struggled to remake their world upon the cornerstone of liberty.

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:8835847

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The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141927152

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The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert Pdf

Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert’s brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the ‘coup d’etat’ that brought Napoleon to power ten years later. In the process he explains the drama and complexities of this epoch-making era in the compelling and accessible manner he has made his trademark. Writing in The Times, Richard Holmes described the book as ‘A spectacular replay of epic action ...’ while The Good Book Guide called it, ‘Unquestionably the best popular history of the French Revolution’.