Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century 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 Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France write by Christine Adams. This book was released on 2005-08-18. Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together eight essays (all but one previously unpublished) that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture in eighteenth-century France. Divided into three sections, the chapters map out current research paths in social, cultural, and political history. The authors engage the most heated subjects of debate in the field today, including the changing nature of political life in the age of Enlightenment, the role of public opinion in undermining absolutism, and the impact of gender on social relationships and political language in the late eighteenth century. They demonstrate a marked interest in the lives of ordinary and humble French people, finding that exclusion from the main corridors of power fostered cunning and resourcefulness, not political indifference or ignorance. The articles encompass the Old Regime and the revolutionary era without falling into the teleological trap of using the former as the backdrop for the events of 1789. On the contrary, many of the authors consciously avoid this bias by investigating the Old Regime in its own right or by consciously linking the pre- and postrevolutionary eras. This decision alone marks an important turning of the tide. By establishing a dialogue between the Old Regime and the revolution, this volume implicitly pays homage to those historians who insist on the structural continuities that underlay the rupture of 1789. Contributors are Cissie Fairchilds, Christine Adams, Orest Ranum, Lisa Jane Graham, Harvey Chisick, John Garrigus, Lenard Berlanstein, and Jack Censer.
Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-century France
Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-century 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 Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-century France write by Christine Adams. This book was released on 1997. Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-century France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together eight essays (all but one previously unpublished) that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture in eighteenth-century France. Divided into three sections, the chapters map out current research paths in social, cultural, and political history. The authors engage the most heated subjects of debate in the field today, including the changing nature of political life in the age of Enlightenment, the role of public opinion in undermining absolutism, and the impact of gender on social relationships and political language in the late eighteenth century. They demonstrate a marked interest in the lives of ordinary and humble French people, finding that exclusion from the main corridors of power fostered cunning and resourcefulness, not political indifference or ignorance. The articles encompass the Old Regime and the revolutionary era without falling into the teleological trap of using the former as the backdrop for the events of 1789. On the contrary, many of the authors consciously avoid this bias by investigating the Old Regime in its own right or by consciously linking the pre- and postrevolutionary eras. This decision alone marks an important turning of the tide. By establishing a dialogue between the Old Regime and the revolution, this volume implicitly pays homage to those historians who insist on the structural continuities that underlay the rupture of 1789. Contributors are Cissie Fairchilds, Christine Adams, Orest Ranum, Lisa Jane Graham, Harvey Chisick, John Garrigus, Lenard Berlanstein, and Jack Censer.
Visions/revisions
Visions/revisions - 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 Visions/revisions write by Nigel Harkness. This book was released on 2003. Visions/revisions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in this volume contribute diversely towards a revision and a reconceptualization of nineteenth-century France, with many adopting interdisciplinary methodologies attentive to the interplay between literature, history, art, popular and high culture, politics and science.
A Taste for Comfort and Status
A Taste for Comfort and Status - 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 Taste for Comfort and Status write by Christine Adams. This book was released on 2000-01-01. A Taste for Comfort and Status available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Lamothes were an ordinary family in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. Well-to-do and well respected by their neighbors, they were local notables whose private and public lives suggest the importance of family, kin, and friendship networks, professional activities and cultural interests, as well as a desire to serve the public good. In this portrait of the Lamothes, Christine Adams explores the development of middle-class identity among urban professionals and reconsiders the role of this social group in the coming French Revolution. The most striking feature of this family history is that it is based on more than three hundred personal letters that circulated among the Lamothes&—parents and seven siblings&—over a period of twenty-five years. Such a collection is rare for this period, and Adams makes the most of it. Her study lends remarkable texture to provincial middle-class life. She weaves these letters into every aspect of the Lamothes' experience&—professional, literary, intellectual, social, and civic. She demonstrates a sustained mobilization of all family skills and resources to maintain the status of the males of the family and preserve (rather than risk) the family's emotional and material stability. While their conservative lifestyle suggests that the Lamothes were not &"revolutionary,&" they were, nonetheless, part of the bourgeoisie. Adams thus taps into a potent debate about middle-class consciousness and identity in the eighteenth century, arguing against those historians who doubt that such a social class existed in France before 1789.
The Vision of World Peace in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century France
The Vision of World Peace in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century 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 The Vision of World Peace in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century France write by Elizabeth V. Souleyman. This book was released on 1941. The Vision of World Peace in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
