Nobility Reimagined : : The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France / / Jay M. Smith.
The mature nationalism that fueled the French Revolution grew from patriotic sensibilities fostered over the course of a century or more. Jay M. Smith proposes that the French thought their way to nationhood through a process of psychic adjustment premised on the reimagining of nobility, a social ca...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 13 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Ilustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbrevations
- Introduction: Honor, Virtue, And Patriotism In Eighteenth-Century France
- 1. Nobility And The Appeal To Virtue In Early Eighteenth-Century France (17005-17405)
- 2. Nobility And The Longing For Virtue: Patriotic Possibilities From Montesquieu To Mirabeau
- 3. Patriotism And Social Taxonomy In The Debate Over La Noblesse Commerfante
- 4. Patriotic Resurgence And The Nationalization Of Honor (17608-1780)
- 5. Nobility In A Nation Of Citizens (I76os-Early 17805)
- 6. Defining Nobility And Nation In 1788-1789
- Conclusion: Patriotic Revolution
- Bibliography
- Index