The Great Fear Of 1789
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Author | : Georges Lefebvre |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Describes conditions in the spring and summer of 1789 that gave rise to fear and panic among the French peasants.
Author | : Georges Lefèbvre |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Georges Lefebvre |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2019-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691206937 |
The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history "from below"—a Marxist approach. Here, he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.
Author | : GEORGES. LEFEBVRE |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9781788735957 |
Author | : Georges Lefebvre |
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Total Pages | : |
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Genre | : France |
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Author | : Gregory Clay Ramsay |
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Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Georges Lefebvre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Georges Lefebvre |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691121888 |
The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history "from below"--a Marxist approach. Here, he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.
Author | : Georges Lefebvre |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780231023429 |
Author | : Adam Zamoyski |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2015-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465060935 |
For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power-and their heads-were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they chose to fight back against every threat and insurgency, whether real or merely perceived, repressing their populaces through surveillance networks and violent, secretive police action. Europe, and the world, had entered a new era. In Phantom Terror, award-winning historian Adam Zamoyski argues that the stringent measures designed to prevent unrest had disastrous and far-reaching consequences, inciting the very rebellions they had hoped to quash. The newly established culture of state control halted economic development in Austria and birthed a rebellious youth culture in Russia that would require even harsher methods to suppress. By the end of the era, the first stirrings of terrorist movements had become evident across the continent, making the previously unfounded fears of European monarchs a reality. Phantom Terror explores this troubled, fascinating period, when politicians and cultural leaders from Edmund Burke to Mary Shelley were forced to choose sides and either support or resist the counterrevolutionary spirit embodied in the newly-omnipotent central states. The turbulent political situation that coalesced during this era would lead directly to the revolutions of 1848 and to the collapse of order in World War I. We still live with the legacy of this era of paranoia, which prefigured not only the modern totalitarian state but also the now preeminent contest between society's haves and have nots. These tempestuous years of suspicion and suppression were the crux upon which the rest of European history would turn. In this magisterial history, Zamoyski chronicles the moment when desperate monarchs took the world down the path of revolution, terror, and world war.