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Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution - Couverture souple

Hobsbawm, Eric

 
9781978802377: Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution
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ISBN 10 : 1978802374 ISBN 13 : 9781978802377
Editeur : Rutgers University Press Classics, 2018

Synopsis

What was the French Revolution? Was it the triumph of Enlightenment humanist principles, or a violent reign of terror? Did it empower the common man, or just the bourgeoisie? And was it a turning point in world history, or a mere anomaly?

E.J. Hobsbawm's classic historiographic study--written at the very moment when a new set of revolutions swept through the Eastern Bloc and brought down the Iron Curtain--explores how the French Revolution was perceived over the following two centuries. He traces how the French Revolution became integral to nineteenth-century political discourse, when everyone from bourgeois liberals to radical socialists cited these historical events, even as they disagreed on what their meaning. And he considers why references to the French Revolution continued to inflame passions into the twentieth century, as a rhetorical touchstone for communist revolutionaries and as a boogeyman for social conservatives.

Echoes of the Marseillaise is a stimulating examination of how the same events have been reimagined by different generations and factions to serve various political agendas. It will give readers a new appreciation for how the French Revolution not only made history, but also shaped our fundamental notions about history itself.

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À propos de l'auteur

ERIC JOHN ERNEST HOBSBAWM, CH FRSL FBA (1917-2012) was emeritus professor of history at Birbeck College, University of London, emeritus university professor of politics and society at the New School for Social Research, and a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He authored more than twenty books, including the collection The Invention of Tradition and the tetralogy The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press Classics
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1978802374
ISBN 13 
9781978802377
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
158
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