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Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution /

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: 1st editionDescription: xx, 948 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0394559487
  • 9780394559483
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Citizens.DDC classification:
  • 944.04 19
LOC classification:
  • DC148 .S43 1989
Other classification:
  • 15.70
  • NO 3100
  • 15.65
Online resources:
Contents:
Alterations: the France of Louis XVI -- New men -- Blue horizons, red ink -- Absolutism attacked -- The cultural construction of a citizen -- The costs of modernity -- Expectations -- Body politics -- Suicides, 1787-1788 -- Grievances, Autumn 1788-Spring 1789 -- Improvising a nation -- Bastille, July 1789 -- Choices -- Reason and unreason, July-November 1789 -- Acts of faith, October 1789-July 1790 -- Departures, August 1790-July 1791 -- "Marseillaise," September 1791-August 1792 -- Impure blood, August 1792-January 1793 -- Virtue and death -- Enemies of the people? winter-spring 1793 -- "Terror is the order of the day" -- The politics of turpitude -- Chiliasm, April-July 1794.
Summary: Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 944.04 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) DC148 .S43 1989 1 Available 34517000208481

Donated in Honor of Dr. Lionel V. Patenaude.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 879-906) and index.

Alterations: the France of Louis XVI -- New men -- Blue horizons, red ink -- Absolutism attacked -- The cultural construction of a citizen -- The costs of modernity -- Expectations -- Body politics -- Suicides, 1787-1788 -- Grievances, Autumn 1788-Spring 1789 -- Improvising a nation -- Bastille, July 1789 -- Choices -- Reason and unreason, July-November 1789 -- Acts of faith, October 1789-July 1790 -- Departures, August 1790-July 1791 -- "Marseillaise," September 1791-August 1792 -- Impure blood, August 1792-January 1793 -- Virtue and death -- Enemies of the people? winter-spring 1793 -- "Terror is the order of the day" -- The politics of turpitude -- Chiliasm, April-July 1794.

Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.

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