THE REVOLUTIONARY TEMPER : PARIS, 1748-1789 HC

Εκδότης: ALLEN LANE
Συγγραφέας: Robert Darnton
Isbn: 9780713996562
Διαστάσεις: 198Χ129Χ13
Αριθμός σελίδων: 576
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 1/11/2023
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Περιγραφη

"A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian ‘Events do not come naked into the world. They come clothed – in attitudes, assumptions, values, memories of the past, anticipations of the future, hopes and fears and many other emotions. To understand events, it is necessary to describe the perceptions that accompany them, for the two are inseparable.’ When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, class conflict or Enlightenment ideology. Without denying any of these, Robert Darnton offers a different explanation: what Parisians themselves, those at the centre of the Revolution, thought was happening at the time a