The Myth Of The French Bourgeoisie

Author : Sarah Maza
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674040724

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The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie by Sarah Maza Pdf

Who, exactly, were the French bourgeoisie? Unlike the Anglo-Americans, who widely embraced middle-class ideals and values, the French--even the most affluent and conservative--have always rejected and maligned bourgeois values and identity. In this new approach to the old question of the bourgeoisie, Sarah Maza focuses on the crucial period before, during, and after the French Revolution, and offers a provocative answer: the French bourgeoisie has never existed. Despite the large numbers of respectable middling town-dwellers, no group identified themselves as bourgeois. Drawing on political and economic theory and history, personal and polemical writings, and works of fiction, Maza argues that the bourgeoisie was never the social norm. In fact, it functioned as a critical counter-norm, an imagined and threatening embodiment of materialism, self-interest, commercialism, and mass culture, which defined all that the French rejected. A challenge to conventional wisdom about modern French history, this book poses broader questions about the role of anti-bourgeois sentiment in French culture, by suggesting parallels between the figures of the bourgeois, the Jew, and the American in the French social imaginary. It is a brilliant and timely foray into our beliefs and fantasies about the social world and our definition of a social class.

Author : Sarah C. Maza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120671787

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The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie by Sarah C. Maza Pdf

Author : Alfred Cobban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038896846

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The Myth of the French Revolution by Alfred Cobban Pdf

Author : Elinor G. Barber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : France
ISBN : 0691649634

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The Bourgeoisie in 18th Century France by Elinor G. Barber Pdf

By delving into the religious, economic, social, and political attitudes and practices of the French bourgeoisie in the 18th century, Mrs. Barber dispels the idea that they were a revolutionary class bent on the destruction of the ancien r gime. Instead, she reveals that only slowly and partially did they become antagonistic to the established society. Her particular attention is given to bourgeois feelings about, and chances for, social mobility. The book provides fresh insights into a familiar period, both in the wealth of information about the bourgeois class and in the use of sociological methods in a historical study. As an excellent example of a new and increasingly fruitful approach to history, it will interest both the historian and the social scientist. Originally published in 1955. 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 : Timothy Tackett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400864317

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Becoming a Revolutionary by Timothy Tackett Pdf

Here Timothy Tackett tests some of the diverse explanations of the origins of the French Revolution by examining the psychological itineraries of the individuals who launched it--the deputies of the Estates General and the National Assembly. Based on a wide variety of sources, notably the letters and diaries of over a hundred deputies, the book assesses their collective biographies and their cultural and political experience before and after 1789. In the face of the current "revisionist" orthodoxy, it argues that members of the Third Estate differed dramatically from the Nobility in wealth, status, and culture. Virtually all deputies were familiar with some elements of the Enlightenment, yet little evidence can be found before the Revolution of a coherent oppositional "ideology" or "discourse." Far from the inexperienced ideologues depicted by the revisionists, the Third Estate deputies emerge as practical men, more attracted to law, history, and science than to abstract philosophy. Insofar as they received advance instruction in the possibility of extensive reform, it came less from reading books than from involvement in municipal and regional politics and from the actions and decrees of the monarchy itself. Before their arrival in Versailles, few deputies envisioned changes that could be construed as "Revolutionary." Such new ideas emerged primarily in the process of the Assembly itself and continued to develop, in many cases, throughout the first year of the Revolution. Originally published in 1996. 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 : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780809071944

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Mythologies by Roland Barthes Pdf

"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--

Author : Suzanne Desan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520248168

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The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France by Suzanne Desan Pdf

Annotation A sophisticated and groundbreaking book on what women actually did and what actually happened to them during the French Revolution.

Author : David Andress
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191009914

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The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution by David Andress Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations of academic thinking on key topics, along with stimulating and provocative interpretations and suggestions for future research directions. Placing core dimensions of the history of the French Revolution in their transnational and global contexts, the contributors demonstrate that revolutionary times demand close analysis of sometimes tiny groups of key political actors - whether the king and his ministers or the besieged leaders of the Jacobin republic - and attention to the deeply local politics of both rural and urban populations. Identities of class, gender and ethnicity are interrogated, but so too are conceptions and practices linked to citizenship, community, order, security, and freedom: each in their way just as central to revolutionary experiences, and equally amenable to critical analysis and reflection. This volume covers the structural and political contexts that build up to give new views on the classic question of the 'origins of revolution'; the different dimensions of personal and social experience that illuminate the political moment of 1789 itself; the goals and dilemmas of the period of constitutional monarchy; the processes of destabilisation and ongoing conflict that ended that experiment; the key issues surrounding the emergence and experience of 'terror'; and the short- and long-term legacies, for both good and ill, of the revolutionary trauma - for France, and for global politics.

Author : Rachel Rich
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719081122

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Bourgeois Consumption by Rachel Rich Pdf

Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed people’s eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies, ritual and identity. Forgoing the traditional food history territory of recipes and ingredients in favor of how people ate in different circles, Bourgeois Consumption explores the role of real and imagined meals in shaping Victorian lives. The perception of the middle classes as rigid and upright, found in the extensive pages of their etiquette books, is contrasted with a more flexible and spontaneous bourgeoisie, gleaned from the pages of their own colorful memoirs, diaries and letters, leading us on a lively journey into eating spaces, mealtimes, manners, and social interactions between diners. Further, contrasting Paris with London reveals some of the ways each city shaped its inhabitants but, more surprisingly, throws up a range of similarities that suggest the middle classes were, in fact, a transnational class. Rachel Rich’s work will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the history of food, consumption and leisure, as well as to a broader audience curious about how the Victorian middle classes distinguished themselves through daily life and manners.

Author : Christophe Guilluy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300233766

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Twilight of the Elites by Christophe Guilluy Pdf

A passionate account of how the gulf between France’s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an “American society”—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy’s winners and losers in today’s France has replaced the old left‑right split, leaving many on “the periphery.” As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country’s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy’s analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an “open society” in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.

Author : Alfred Cobban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1411584624

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The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution by Alfred Cobban Pdf

Author : Charles S. Maier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400873708

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Recasting Bourgeois Europe by Charles S. Maier Pdf

Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, Maier provides a comparative history of three European nations and argues that they did not simply return to a prewar status quo, but achieved a new balance of state authority and interest group representation. While most previous accounts presented the decade as a prelude to the Depression and dictatorships, Maier suggests that the stabilization of the 1920s, vulnerable as it was, foreshadowed the more enduring political stability achieved after World War II. The immense and ambitious scope of this book, its ability to follow diverse histories in detail, and its effort to explain stabilization—and not just revolution or breakdown—have made it a classic of European history.

Author : Philippe Perrot
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691000816

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Fashioning the Bourgeoisie by Philippe Perrot Pdf

By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats suitable to the manly and serious world of commerce. Their wives and daughters, on the other hand, adorned themselves in bright colors and often uncomfortable and impractical laces and petticoats, to signal the status of their family.

Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845451694

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The Bourgeois Revolution in France, 1789-1815 by Henry Heller Pdf

In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist view that the Revolution was a bourgeois and capitalist revolution has been questioned by Anglo-Saxon revisionists like Alfred Cobban and William Doyle as well as a French school of criticism headed by François Furet. Today revisionism is the dominant interpretation of the Revolution both in the academic world and among the educated public. Against this conception, this book reasserts the view that the Revolution - the capital event of the modern age - was indeed a capitalist and bourgeois revolution. Based on an analysis of the latest historical scholarship as well as on knowledge of Marxist theories of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the work confutes the main arguments and contentions of the revisionist school while laying out a narrative of the causes and unfolding of the Revolution from the eighteenth century to the Napoleonic Age.

Author : B. Szelenyi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230601543

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The Failure of the Central European Bourgeoisie by B. Szelenyi Pdf

This comprehensive study traces the history of over forty royal free towns from the sixteenth-century to 1848 in the territories of what today are Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania. Szelényi argues that these towns have been a neglected feature of national meta-narratives in Eastern Europe because their dwellers were often German speakers.