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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136145803321

Autore

Hunt Lynn <1945->

Titolo

Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution / / Lynn Hunt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-520-93104-1

Edizione

[Twentieth anniversary edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

944.04100000000005

Soggetti

Politics and culture - France - History - 18th century

Social classes - France - History - 18th century

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Plates -- List of Maps -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments to the 1984 Edition -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Interpreting the French Revolution -- 1. The Rhetoric of Revolution -- 2. Symbolic Forms of Political Practice -- 3. The Imagery of Radicalism -- 4. The Political Geography of Revolution -- 5. The New Political Class -- 6. Outsiders, Culture Brokers, and Political Networks -- Conclusion: Revolution in Political Culture -- Appendix A: Correlation Matrix of Selected Political, Economic, and Demographic Variables -- Appendix B: Occupational Analysis of City Councillors in Amiens, Bordeaux, Nancy, and Toulouse -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.