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Nobility Reimagined The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France

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ISBN-10: 0801489490

ISBN-13: 9780801489495

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jay M. Smith

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List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Jay M. Smith is John Van Seters Distinguished Term Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Introduction : honor, virtue, and patriotism in eighteenth-century France
Nobility and the appeal to virtue in early eighteenth-century France (1700s-1740s)
Nobility and the longing for virtue : patriotic possibilities from Montesquieu to Mirabeau
Patriotism and social taxonomy in the debate over La Noblesse Commercante
Patriotic resurgence and the nationalization of honor (1760s-1780)
Nobility in a nation of citizens (1760s-early 1780s)
Defining nobility and nation in 1788-1789
Conclusion : patriotic revolution