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France in the Enlightenment

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ISBN-10: 0674001990

ISBN-13: 9780674001992

Edition: 1998

Authors: Daniel Roche, Arthur Goldhammer

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By placing politics and material culture at the heart of historical change, Daniel Roche captures the complexity and depth of the Enlightenment. He shows the reader the 18th-century France of the peasant, the merchant, the noble, and the King.
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Book details

List price: $26.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/10/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Arthur Goldhammer is the translator for numerous books including Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, Algerian Chronicles, The Society of Equals, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

Introduction
Times, Spaces, Powers
Knowing France
Mastery of Space
Time and History
Peasant France and Merchant France
The Kingdom of Exchange: The Culture of Privilege and the Culture of Commerce
The City, Crucible of Change
The Regulated Kingdom: Paris and the Provinces
Powers and Conflicts
The King and His Subjects
The King and the People
The End of Rebellion
God, the King, and the Churches
Elites and Nobilities
Public Space
Crises in State and Society
Enlightenment and Society
Life Triumphant
The Liberties of Individuals
Consumption and Appearance
Desacralization, Secularization, Illuminism
Materializing the Intelligence, Abstracting Things
Paris, Capital of the Enlightenment
Notes
Index