The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 write by Robert Darnton. This book was released on 2023-11-07. The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian. When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. In retrospect we understand the French Revolution as the outcome of such factors as a faltering economy and Enlightenment thought. But what did the Parisians themselves think they were doing—how did they understand their world? In this dazzling history, Robert Darnton draws on decades of study to conjure a past as vivid as today’s news. He explores eighteenth-century Paris as an information society like our own, its news circuits centered in cafés, on park benches, and under the Palais-Royal’s Tree of Cracow. Through pamphlets, gossip, and public performances, the events of some forty years—from disastrous treaties and royal debauchery to thrilling hot-air balloon ascents—entered the churning collective consciousness of ordinary Parisians. With public trust eroding as new aspirations soared, Parisians prepared themselves for revolution.
Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795
Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 write by Darline Gay Levy. This book was released on 1979. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 200 years ago, the women of revolutionary Paris were demanding legal equality in marriage; educational opportunities for girls; and public instruction, licensing, and support for midwives. This title presents sixty documents which focuses on these and other socioeconomic struggles by women and their impact on the French Revolutionary era.
The Making of Revolutionary Paris
The Making of Revolutionary Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Revolutionary Paris write by David Garrioch. This book was released on 2004-08-16. The Making of Revolutionary Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An unusually compelling work of scholarly synthesis: a history of a city of revolution in a revolutionary century. Garrioch claims that until 1750 Paris remained a city characterized by a powerful sense of hierarchy. From the mid-century on, however, and with gathering speed, economic, demographic, political, and social change swept the city. Having produced an extremely engaging account of the old corporate society, Garrioch turns to the forces that relentlessly undermined it."—John E. Talbott, author of The Pen and Ink Sailor: Charles Middleton and the King's Navy, 1778-1813 "A truly wonderful synthesis of the many historical strands that compose the history of eighteenth-century Paris. In rewriting the history of the French Revolution as a more than century-long urban metamorphosis, Garrioch makes a brilliant case for the centrality of Paris in the history of France."—Bonnie Smith, author of The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice
A Literary Tour de France
A Literary Tour de France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Literary Tour de France write by Robert Darnton. This book was released on 2018. A Literary Tour de France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert Darnton uses his exclusive access to a trove of documents-letters and documents from authors, publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink manufacturers, smugglers, wagon drivers, warehousemen, and accountants-involving a publishing house in the Swiss town of Neuchatel to bring this world to life. Like other places on the periphery of France, Switzerland was a hotbed of piracy, carefully monitoring the demand for certain kinds of books and finding ways of fulfilling it. Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-François Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of this story, Darnton reveals not only how the industry worked and which titles were in greatest demand, but the human scale of its operations. A Literary Tour de France is literally that. Darnton captures the hustle, picaresque comedy, and occasional risk of Favarger's travels in the service of books, and in the process offers an engaging, immersive, and unforgettable narrative of book culture at a critical moment in France's history.
Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era
Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era write by Hildor Arnold Barton. This book was released on 1986. Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
