Sans-Culottes : : An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution /

Sans-Culottes : : An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution / / Michael Sonenscher.

This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and e...

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Sonenscher, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]
©2009
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 6 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS AND A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS
  • 1. INTRODUCTION: "ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING PAIRS OF BREECHES RECORDED IN MODERN HISTORY"
  • 2. AN INGENIOUS EMBLEM
  • 3. DIOGENES AND ROUSSEAU: MUSIC, MORALITY, AND SOCIETY
  • 4. PROPERTY, EQUALITY, AND THE PASSIONS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH THOUGHT
  • 5. THE ENTITLEMENTS OF MERIT
  • 6. CONCLUSION: DEMOCRACY AND TERROR
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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