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The French Revolution in Culture and Society (Hardcover, New)
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The French Revolution in Culture and Society (Hardcover, New)
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This volume examines the issue of the timing of cultural change,
problems of Revolutionary anticipations and reverberations, and the
relationship between culture, politics, and society. Individual
essays combine both old and new approaches, ranging from textual
analysis to the study of local judicial records, from the
psychohistorical to the demographic. But they all demonstrate the
usefulness of linking social and cultural history, broadly
conceived, and of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of
events. Part One addresses directly the creation of French
Revolutionary culture. The contributors describe the physical act
of dismantling and redefining the culture of the Ancien Regime for
revolutionary purposes, new conceptions of time, and generation
relations in Revolutionary rhetoric and law. The second part
identifies key cultural ingredients from the distant past. It
reminds us of the extent to which the Revolution employed the huge
storehouse of Western culture to create something original. Because
the creation of a democratic culture implies a crisis of
consciousness, Part Three brings together a range of investigations
into the question of cultural crisis. Three essays see the
Revolutionary era as engendering psychological dislocation. In Part
Four, social historians reveal the variety of approaches they have
taken in trying to understand eighteenth century France. The varied
contributions exploit the sources that have become the
stock-in-trade of modern social history. Poverty, crime, and
population are among the leading topics in current historiography,
but military and political institutions are also examined in new
ways. This edited collection provides new insights into a critical
period of world history and will be welcomed by all scholars of the
French Revolution and its aftermath.
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