Sister Revolutions French Lightning, American Light

Name: Sister Revolutions French Lightning, American Light
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ISBN: 9780571199891

ISBN-10: 0571199895

ISBN-13: 9780571199891

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Authors: Susan Dunn

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What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today The American and French revolutions presented the world with two very different visions of democracy. Although both professed similar Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality, and justice and set similar political agendas, there were also fundamental differences. The French sought a complete break with a thousand years of history; the Americans were content to preserve many aspects of their English heritage. Why did the two revolutions follow such different trajectories? And what lessons do they offer us about democracy today? In lucid narrative style, Dunn captures the personalities and lives of the great figures of…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682

Susan Dunn is a professor of French literature and the history of ideas at Williams College. She is the author most recently of The Death of Louis XIV: Regicide & the French political Imagination. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.



Acknowledgments



Sister Revolutions



Revolutionary Leadership



Conflict or Consensus?



Revolutionary Talk, Revolutionary Stage



Declaring - and Denying - Rights



Enlightenment Legacies



On "Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition"



The Bill of Rights


Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen


Notes


Index