Revolutionary Ideas : : An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre /

Revolutionary Ideas : : An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre / / Jonathan Israel.

Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers-that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, eco...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Israel, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Revolution of the Press (1788-90)
  • Chapter 3. From Estates-General to National Assembly (April-June 1789)
  • Chapter 4. The Rights of Man: Summer and Autumn 1789
  • Chapter 5. Democratizing the Revolution
  • Chapter 6. Deadlock (November 1790-July 1791)
  • Chapter 7. War with the Church (1788-92)
  • Chapter 8. The Feuillant Revolution ( July 1791-April 1792)
  • Chapter 9. The "General Revolution" Begins (1791-92)
  • Chapter 10. The Revolutionary Summer of 1792
  • Chapter 11. Republicans Divided (September 1792-March 1793)
  • Chapter 12. The "General Revolution" from Valmy to the Fall of Mainz (1792-93)
  • Chapter 13. The World's First Democratic Constitution (1793)
  • Chapter 14. Education: Securing the Revolution
  • Chapter 15. Black Emancipation
  • Chapter 16. Robespierre's Putsch ( June 1793)
  • Chapter 17. The Summer of 1793: Overturning the Revolution's Core Values
  • Chapter 18. De-Christianization (1793-94)
  • Chapter 19. "The Terror" (September 1793-March 1794)
  • Chapter 20. The Terror's Last Months (March-July 1794)
  • Chapter 21. Thermidor
  • Chapter 22. Post-Thermidor (1795-97)
  • Chapter 23. The "General Revolution" (1795-1800): Holland, Italy, and the Levant
  • Chapter 24. The Failed Revolution (1797-99)
  • Chapter 25. Conclusion: The Revolution as the Outcome of the Radical Enlightenment
  • Cast of Main Participants
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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