Interpreting the French Revolution

Name: Interpreting the French Revolution
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ISBN: 9780521280495

ISBN-10: 0521280494

ISBN-13: 9780521280495

Edition: 1981

Authors: Frangois Furet, Elborg Forster

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The French Revolution is an historical event unlike any other. It is more than just a topic of intellectual interest: it has become part of a moral and political heritage. But after two centuries, this central event in French history has usually been thought of in much the same terms as it was by its contemporaries. There have been many accounts of the French Revolution, and though their opinions differ, they have often been commemorative or anniversary interpretations of the original event. The dividing line of revolutionary historiography, in intellectual terms, is therefore not between the right and the left, but between commemorative and conceptual history, as exemplified respectively…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/24/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface



The French Revolution is over



Three approaches to the history of the French Revolution



The Revolutionary catechism



De Tocqueville and the problem of the French Revolution



Augustin Cochin: the theory of Jacobinism