Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France 1791

Name: Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France 1791
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ISBN: 9780393937312

ISBN-10: 0393937313

ISBN-13: 9780393937312

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gary Kates, Mark C. Carnes

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Students are leaders of major factions within the National Assembly (and in the streets outside) as it struggles to create a constitution amid internal chaos and threats of foreign invasion. Will the king retain power? Will the priests of the Catholic Church obey the “general will” of the National Assembly or the dictates of the pope in Rome? Do traditional institutions and values constitute restraints on freedom and individual dignity, or are they its essential bulwarks? Are slaves, women, and Jews entitled to the “rights of man”? Is violence a legitimate means of changing society or of purging it of dangerous enemies? In wrestling with these issues, students consult Jean-Jacques…

Book details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 142
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Mark C. Carnes is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University.