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Echoes of the Marseillaise - Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution (Paperback)
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Echoes of the Marseillaise - Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution (Paperback)
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Loot Price R466
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The bicentenary of the French Revolution has been dominated by
those who do not like the French Revolution or its heritage. This
book deals with a surprisingly neglected subject: the history, not
of the revolution itself, but of its reception and interpretation
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A Critical assumption of
the book is that while it is necessary and inevitable that
historians write out of the history of their own times, those who
write only out of their own times cannot understand the past and
what came out of it. The recent historiographical reaction against
the centrality of the Revolution reflects the politics of those
contemporary historians for whom progress and revolutionary
democracy are dangerous concepts. Their reinterpretations, Hobsbawm
argues, are misguided. The Revolution transformed the world
permanently and, as recent events in Eastern Europe emphasize,
introduced ideas that continue to transform it. 'The French
Revolution', writes Hobsbawm, ' gave peoples the sense that history
could be changed by their action ... [and] demonstrated the power
of the common people in a manner which no subsequent government has
ever allowed itself to forget.' Echoes of the Marseillaise is a
stimulating mix of historiography and political analysis, a
much-needed epilogue of clarity and reason to a muddled
bicentenary.
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