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The French Revolution and the birth of modernity

The French Revolution and the birth of modernity [world wide web resource] / edited by Ferenc Fehér. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1990. - Web resource (289 p.).

The majority of these papers were originally published in Social research, v. 56, no. 1, spring 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ferenc Fehér -- Mars unshackled : the French Revolution in world-historical perspective / Theda Skocpol and Meyer Kestnbaum -- The making of a "bourgeois revolution" / Eric Hobsbawm -- State and counterrevolution in France / Charles Tilly -- Cultural upheaval and class formation during the French Revolution / Patrice Higonnet -- Jews into Frenchmen : nationality and representation in Revolutionary France / Gary Kates -- The French Revolution as a world-historical event / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Saint-Just and the problem of heroism in the French Revolution / Miguel Abensour -- Violence in the French Revolution : forms of ingestion, forms of expulsion / Brian Singer -- The cult of the supreme being and the limits of the secularization of the political / Ferenc Fehér -- Practical reason in the Revolution : Kant's dialogue with the French Revolution / Ferenc Fehér. Hegel and the French Revolution : an epitaph for republicanism / Steven B. Smith -- Alexis de Tocqueville and the legacy of the French Revolution / Harvey Mitchell -- Transformations in the historiography of the Revolution / François Furet.



0520068793 (alk. paper) 0520071204 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780520068797

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Civilization, Modern--18th century
Political science--History
Civilización moderna.
Política--Historia
European history
Revolutionary groups & movements


France--History--Influence.--Revolution, 1789-1799

France History, 1789-1815

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