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

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 an...

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