Becoming a Revolutionary : : The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790) / / Timothy Tackett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Tackett, Timothy,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 334
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.) :; 1 graph, 12 halftones

Here Timothy Tackett tests some of the diverse explanations of the origins of the French Revolution by examining the psychological itineraries of the individuals who launched it--the deputies of the Estates General and the National Assembly. Based on a wide variety of sources, notably the letters and diaries of over a hundred deputies, the book assesses their collective biographies and their cultural and political experience before and after 1789. In the face of the current "revisionist" orthodoxy, it argues that members of the Third Estate differed dramatically from the Nobility in wealth, status, and culture.Virtually all deputies were familiar with some elements of the Enlightenment, yet little evidence can be found before the Revolution of a coherent oppositional "ideology" or "discourse." Far from the inexperienced ideologues depicted by the revisionists, the Third Estate deputies emerge as practical men, more attracted to law, history, and science than to abstract philosophy. Insofar as they received advance instruction in the possibility of extensive reform, it came less from reading books than from involvement in municipal and regional politics and from the actions and decrees of the monarchy itself. Before their arrival in Versailles, few deputies envisioned changes that could be construed as "Revolutionary." Such new ideas emerged primarily in the process of the Assembly itself and continued to develop, in many cases, throughout the first year of the Revolution.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: DEPUTY BACKGROUNDS -- CHAPTER ONE. The Three Estates: A Collective Biography -- CHAPTER TWO. A Revolution of the Mind? -- CHAPTER THREE. The Political Apprenticeship -- PART TWO: ORIGINS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY DYNAMIC -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Creation of the National Assembly -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Experience of Revolution -- CHAPTER SIX. Factional Formation and the Revolutionary Dynamic: August to November -- PART THREE: POLITICS AND REVOLUTION -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Deputies as Lawgivers -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Jacobins and Capuchins: The Revolutionary Dynamic through April 1790 -- CHAPTER NINE. To End a Revolution -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX I. Marriage Dowries of Deputies in Livres -- APPENDIX II. Estimated Deputy Fortunes and Incomes in Livres at the End of the Old Regime -- APPENDIX III. Leading Deputy Speakers during the National Assembly -- SOURCES -- INDEX