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  • The French Revolution

    Events and Ideas

    par Michael Sonenscher ...
    Collections series Worldmaking
    Three questions have usually been asked about the French Revolution: why did it happen? why was it so violent? and what was its legacy? These questions seem to beg other, more conceptually ambitious queries about causation, violence or legacies. This book aims to answer both sets of questions by bringing together events and ideas. Michael Sonenscher draws on neglected aspects of eighteenth-century ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Liberty or Death

    The French Revolution

    par Peter McPhee ...
    A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globeThe French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Revolution of the Mind

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    par Jonathan Israel ...
    Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most ... En savoir plus

    $32.59 CAD

  • Rousseau

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Robert Wokler ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon

    The New Penguin History of France

    par Colin Jones ...
    There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon is equally astounding.Colin Jones' brilliant new book ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Revolutionary Ideas

    An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre

    par Jonathan Israel ...
    How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French RevolutionHistorians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost ... En savoir plus

    $40.19 CAD

  • Democratic Enlightenment

    Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790

    par Jonathan Israel ...
    The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's philosophical revolution. This fact is uncontested - yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Terror of Natural Right

    Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, & the French Revolution

    par Dan Edelstein ...
    Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the "enemy of the human race"—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • In Defence of the Terror

    Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

    par Sophie Wahnich ...
    For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by “timeless” standards of morality. In this succinct ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD

  • Enemies of the Enlightenment

    The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

    par Darrin M. McMahon ...
    Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD

  • The French Revolution, 1789-1799

    par Peter McPhee ...
    This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates among historians. The book has two main aims. One aim is to consider the origins and nature of the Revolution of 1789-99. Why was there a ... En savoir plus

    $95.99 CAD

  • Germaine de Staël

    A Political Portrait

    par Biancamaria Fontana ...
    The first in-depth look at Staël's political life and writingsGermaine de Staël (1766–1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. Biancamaria Fontana sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Staël's life and work, bringing vividly to life her unique ... En savoir plus

    $47.79 CAD