Regicide And Revolution

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231515855

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Regicide and Revolution by Michael Walzer Pdf

Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an absolutely essential part of the French Revolution, Walzer discusses two types of regicide: the first, committed by would-be kings or their agents, left the monarchy's mystique and divine right intact, while the second was a revolutionary act intended to destroy it completely. Walzer defends the trial and execution of Louis XVI as necessary, since it not only tried to destroy the monarchy's mystique and divine right, but also required the deputies to fully explain their guiding philosophies and applied the rules of judicial process to establish equality before the law. New to this edition is an appendix containing "Revolutionary Justice," Ferenc Feher's classic rebuttal to Walzer's thesis, and Walzer's response, "The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution."

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : [London ; New York] : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 0521203708

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Regicide and Revolution by Michael Walzer Pdf

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521843935

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Revolutionary Writings by Edmund Burke Pdf

An accessible and annotated edition of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France with the first Letter on a Regicide Peace.

Author : Barber Sarah Barber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781474400732

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Regicide and Republicanism by Barber Sarah Barber Pdf

This study of seventeenth-century monarchy suggests that the arguments which were used to attack the potentially absolutist monarchy of Charles I were not all that different from those used against the constitutional monarchy of today. The seventeenth-century arguments were based on the fiction that the person who fulfilled the office could be distinguished from the office itself. Personal morality and behaviour were vital factors in assessing the value of government. From 1646 onwards there developed two parallel strands of thought. Those who believed in government by laws developed a republican response to the crisis of the 1640s. Those who believed that people made laws attacked Charles I rather than the monarchy itself, supported the regicide and subsequently approved of the rule of Cromwell.

Author : Michael J. Braddick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191667268

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The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution by Michael J. Braddick Pdf

This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland. It captures a shared British and Irish history, comparing the significance of events and outcomes across the Three Kingdoms. In doing so, the Handbook offers a broader context for the history of the Scottish Covenanters, the Irish Rising of 1641, and the government of Confederate Ireland, as well as the British and Irish perspective on the English civil wars, the English revolution, the Regicide, and Cromwellian period. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution explores the significance of these events on a much broader front than conventional studies. The events are approached not simply as political, economic, and social crises, but as challenges to the predominant forms of religious and political thought, social relations, and standard forms of cultural expression. The contributors provide up-to-date analysis of the political happenings, considering the structures of social and political life that shaped and were re-shaped by the crisis. The Handbook goes on to explore the long-term legacies of the crisis in the Three Kingdoms and their impact in a wider European context.

Author : Norah Carlin
Publisher : Breviary Stuff Publications
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1916158609

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Regicide Or Revolution?: What Petitioners Wanted, September 1648 - February 1649 by Norah Carlin Pdf

The petitions addressed to Parliament and the army in the 5 months before Charles I's execution are widely recognised as having influenced the events that led to his trial and death. Never before has there been a comprehensive examination of these texts and only the whole body of them can offer a prospect of assessing their contribution.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030037344795

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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke Pdf

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107728950

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Revolutionary Writings by Edmund Burke Pdf

Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France was the first sustained theoretical critique of the French Revolution; and is now recognised as the classic statement of modern conservatism. Reflections surveys the British political culture of traditionalism, gradualism and deference, and contrasts it with the French Revolutionaries' programme of appeal to abstract right, transformational change and popular agency. Ultimately Burke advocated a counterrevolutionary war and the restoration of the French monarchy. This accessible new edition brings together for the first time Burke's first and last published thoughts on the revolution including as it does the first Letter on a Regicide Peace; a work that has contributed to a particular view of international society. Featuring a comprehensive introduction and extensive annotations, Iain Hampsher-Monk's edition helps readers new to Burke to better understand the historical, political and philosophical context behind his writings, and the significance of contemporary and classical allusions.

Author : Susan Dunn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691224916

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The Deaths of Louis XVI by Susan Dunn Pdf

The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To royalists, it was deicide. Nineteenth-century historians considered it an alarming miscalculation, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the Revolution. By the twentieth century, Camus judged that the killing stood at the "crux of our contemporary history." In this book, Susan Dunn investigates the regicide's pivotal role in French intellectual history and political mythology. She examines how thinkers on the right and left repudiated regicide and terror, while articulating a compassionate, humanitarian vision, which became the moral basis for the modern French nation. Their credo of fraternity and unity, however, strangely depoliticized this supremely political act of regicide. Using theoretical insights from Tocqueville, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, and others, Dunn explores the transformation of violent regicidal politics into an apolitical cult of ethical purity and an antidemocratic nationalist religion. Her book focuses on the fluidity of political myths. The figure of Louis XVI was transmuted into a Joan of Arc and a deified nation, and the notion of his sacrifice contributed to the disquieting myth of a mystical community of self- sacrificing citizens.

Author : Dale K. Van Kley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400857289

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The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the ANCIEN REGIME, 1750-1770 by Dale K. Van Kley Pdf

This book examines an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Louis XV of France and the trial of his assailant, Robert-Francois Damiens, revealing the beginnings of the French Revolution in the ecclesiastical controversies that dominated the Damiens affair. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : J. Peacey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403932815

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The Regicides and the Execution of Charles 1 by J. Peacey Pdf

The events surrounding the trial of Charles I have been remarkably understudied by historians, despite a wealth of information regarding both the proceedings and personalities involved, and contemporary responses and reactions. These essays submit one of the most momentous events in English history to rigorous scholarship, contextualise it in the light of recent historiography, not least regarding relations between the three kingdoms of Britain.

Author : John Rees
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784783891

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The Leveller Revolution by John Rees Pdf

The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to life the men—including John Lilburne, Richard Overton and Thomas Rainsborough—and women who ensured victory and became an inspiration to republicans of many nations. From the raucous streets of London and the clattering printers’ workshops that stoked the uprising, to the rank and file of the New Model Army and the furious Putney debates where the Levellers argued with Oliver Cromwell for the future of English democracy, this story reasserts the revolutionary nature of the 1642–51 wars and the role of ordinary people in this pivotal moment in history. In particular Rees places the Levellers at the centre of the debates of 1647 when the nation was gripped by the question of what to do with the defeated Charles I. Without the Levellers and Agitators’ fortitude and well-organised opposition history may have avoided the regicide and missed its revolutionary moment. The legacy of the Levellers can be seen in the modern struggles for freedom and democracy across the world.

Author : Jules Michelet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2369460156

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Le Proces de Louis XVI by Jules Michelet Pdf

Author : I.J. Gentles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317898467

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The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 by I.J. Gentles Pdf

Ian Gentles provides a riveting, in-depth analysis of the battles and sieges, as well as the political and religious struggles that underpinned them. Based on extensive archival and secondary research he undertakes the first sustained attempt to arrive at global estimates of the human and economic cost of the wars. The many actors in the drama are appraised with subtlety. Charles I, while partly the author of his own misfortune, is shown to have been at moments an inspirational leader. The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms is a sophisticated, comprehensive, exciting account of the sixteen years that were the hinge of British and Irish history. It encompasses politics and war, personalities and ideas, embedding them all in a coherent and absorbing narrative.

Author : Rebecca Comay
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804761277

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Mourning Sickness by Rebecca Comay Pdf

This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the intellectual upheaval in German thought inaugurated by the Protestant Reformation and brought to a climax by German Idealism. He believed, as did many others, that a political revolution would be unnecessary in Germany, because this intellectual "revolution" would preempt it. Mourning Sickness provides a new reading of these ideas in the light of contemporary theories of historical trauma. It explores the ways in which major historical events are experienced vicariously and the fantasies we use to make sense of them. Rebecca Comay brings Hegel into relation with the most burning contemporary discussions around catastrophe, revolution, and the role of media in shaping our political experience. The book will be of interest to readers of philosophy, literature, cultural studies, history, political theory, and memory studies.