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Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution by Arthur Goldhammer (1989, Hardcover)
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Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, Hardcover by Furet, Francois (EDT); Ozouf, Mona (EDT); Goldhammer, Arthur (TRN); Furet, Francois, ISBN 0674177282, ISBN-13 9780674177284, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Two centuries later, the French Revolution—that event that founded modern democracy—continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. This volume not only presents the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also brings one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate.
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PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674177282
ISBN-139780674177284
eBay Product ID (ePID)863129
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Number of Pages1120 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCritical Dictionary of the French Revolution
Publication Year1989
SubjectEurope / France, Revolutionary, General
TypeTextbook
AuthorArthur Goldhammer
Subject AreaReference, History
FormatHardcover
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN89-030656
Dewey Edition19
ReviewsA Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution has already been hailed as the literary event of the bicentennial...This success has come from the originality of its format. In effect, the entire team of historians, led by Fran ois Furet and Mona Ozouf, has broken with the traditional forms: chronological narratives, monographs, biographies...in order to adopt a new style that reconciles these diverse approaches. The work is erudite but unfolds like a historical novel. It is enormous--a thousand pages--but reads like a magazine with ten-page articles illustrating the one hundred 'key words' of the Revolution., A spectacular collection of essays covering virtually every aspect of the French Revolution, written by the most powerful minds currently working on its history. As a whole, the book provides a stunning vindication of the centrality of politics to the lasting significance of the event. Some of the essays--Furet on Quinet, Higonnet on the Sans-culottes, Ozouf on Revolutionary Religion--are miniature masterpieces. The bicentennial is unlikely to produce any other work that serves up so rich and nourishing an intellectual feast., A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution has already been hailed as the literary event of the bicentennial...This success has come from the originality of its format. In effect, the entire team of historians, led by FranÇois Furet and Mona Ozouf, has broken with the traditional forms: chronological narratives, monographs, biographies...in order to adopt a new style that reconciles these diverse approaches. The work is erudite but unfolds like a historical novel. It is enormous--a thousand pages--but reads like a magazine with ten-page articles illustrating the one hundred 'key words' of the Revolution., A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is really a manifesto representing the views of Fran ois Furet, who is now the most influential historian of the French Revolution in the world...Mr. Furet and his collaborators have revived interest in the philosophical problems of modern democracy and shown the importance of the French Revolution in establishing the limits of modern political debate., This Dictionary represents what I would judge to be one of the most comprehensive statements yet of the new historiography, against Annales ; and in so doing, it represents what I would also judge to be one of the clearest interpretations of a renewal of liberal thinking in France which in its distinctiveness, its break from standing conceptions, will be of general interest to all but the most parochial of Anglo-Americans., A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution has already been hailed as the literary event of the bicentennial... This success has come from the originality of its format. In effect, the entire team of historians, led by François Furet and Mona Ozouf, has broken with the traditional forms: chronological narratives, monographs, biographies...in order to adopt a new style that reconciles these diverse approaches. The work is erudite but unfolds like a historical novel. It is enormous--a thousand pages--but reads like a magazine with ten-page articles illustrating the one hundred 'key words' of the Revolution., Not the least merit of Furet and Ozouf's spectacular Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is to take declared meaning at face value; to restore, in fact, full historical autonomy to the conflict of ideas. Those not within the guild of self-described 'professional historians' may be amazed to hear that such conflicts have ever not been taken seriously in their own right. But it may well have taken this monumental work...to reinstate their full causal power. In the Dictionary, in particular, the play of debate and its intersection with the combat of personalities and the shaping of institutions is given primary significance. The great moments of the French Revolution are rescued from compression into the social structure or burial beneath symbolic bricolage...No praise can really be too high for what this work represents: spectacular scholarship, consistently gripping writing, and intellectual penetration...[It] adds up to a coherent vision of the Revolution (all the more remarkable for being written by more than 20 hands). It is certainly the most enduring book to be published in the bicentennial year., In all respects, this Dictionary of more than a thousand pages is a monument of scholarship, and an object of elegant quality, served by original and suggestive illustrations and by a rare quality of writing., Not the least merit of Furet and Ozouf's spectacular Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is to take declared meaning at face value; to restore, in fact, full historical autonomy to the conflict of ideas. Those not within the guild of self-described 'professional historians' may be amazed to hear that such conflicts have ever not been taken seriously in their own right. But it may well have taken this monumental work...to reinstate their full causal power. In the Dictionary , in particular, the play of debate and its intersection with the combat of personalities and the shaping of institutions is given primary significance. The great moments of the French Revolution are rescued from compression into the social structure or burial beneath symbolic bricolage...No praise can really be too high for what this work represents: spectacular scholarship, consistently gripping writing, and intellectual penetration...[It] adds up to a coherent vision of the Revolution (all the more remarkable for being written by more than 20 hands). It is certainly the most enduring book to be published in the bicentennial year., A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is really a manifesto representing the views of François Furet, who is now the most influential historian of the French Revolution in the world... Mr. Furet and his collaborators have revived interest in the philosophical problems of modern democracy and shown the importance of the French Revolution in establishing the limits of modern political debate., It was a splendid idea to compile a critical dictionary of the French Revolution, and the idea has been splendidly executed... A great work., A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is really a manifesto representing the views of FranÇois Furet, who is now the most influential historian of the French Revolution in the world...Mr. Furet and his collaborators have revived interest in the philosophical problems of modern democracy and shown the importance of the French Revolution in establishing the limits of modern political debate., It was a splendid idea to compile a critical dictionary of the French Revolution, and the idea has been splendidly executed...A great work., Not the least merit of Furet and Ozouf's spectacular Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is to take declared meaning at face value; to restore, in fact, full historical autonomy to the conflict of ideas. Those not within the guild of self-described 'professional historians' may be amazed to hear that such conflicts have ever not been taken seriously in their own right. But it may well have taken this monumental work...to reinstate their full causal power. In the Dictionary , in particular, the play of debate and its intersection with the combat of personalities and the shaping of institutions is given primary significance. The great moments of the French Revolution are rescued from compression into the social structure or burial beneath symbolic bricolage... No praise can really be too high for what this work represents: spectacular scholarship, consistently gripping writing, and intellectual penetration... [It] adds up to a coherent vision of the Revolution (all the more remarkable for being written by more than 20 hands). It is certainly the most enduring book to be published in the bicentennial year.
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Dewey Decimal944.04
Table Of Content1. EVENTS Chouannerie FranÇois Furet Coups d'Etat Denis Richet De-Christianization Mona Ozouf Elections Patrice Gueniffey Estates General Ran HalÉvi Federalism Mona Ozouf Federation Mona Ozouf Great Fear Jacques Revel Italian Campaign Denis Richet King's Trial Mona Ozouf Night of August 4 FranÇois Furet The Revolution and Europe Alan Forrest Revolutionary JournÉes Denis Richet Terror FranÇois Furet Treaties of Basel and The Hague Denis Richet Varennes Mona Ozouf VendÉe FranÇois Furet 2. ACTORS Individuals Babeuf FranÇois Furet Barnave FranÇois Furet Carnot Patrice Gueniffey Condorcet Keith M. Baker Danton Mona Ozouf Lafayette Patrice Gueniffey Louis XVI FranÇois Furet Marat Mona Ozouf Marie Antoinette Jacques Revel Mirabeau FranÇois Furet Napoleon Bonaparte FranÇois Furet Necker Marcel Gauchet Robespierre Patrice Gueniffey SieyÈs Keith M. Baker Groups EmigrÉs Massimo Boffa EnragÉs Denis Richet Feuillants Ran HalÉvi Girondins Mona Ozouf HÉbertists Denis Richet Monarchiens Ran HalÉvi Montagnards Mona Ozouf Sans-culottes Patrice Higonnet Thermidorians Bronislaw Baczko 3. INSTITUTIONS AND CREATIONS Army Alan Forrest Assignats Michel BruguiÈre Civil Code Joseph Goy Civil Constitution of the Clergy FranÇois Furet Clubs and Popular Societies Patrice Gueniffey and Ran HalÉvi Committee of Public Safety Denis Richet Constitution Keith M. Baker DÉpartement Mona Ozouf Maximum FranÇois Furet National Properties Louis Bergeron Paris Commune Patrice Gueniffey Revolutionary Assemblies Denis Richet Revolutionary Calendar Mona Ozouf Revolutionary Government FranÇois Furet Revolutionary Religion Mona Ozouf Suffrage Patrice Gueniffey Taxes Gail Bossenga 4. IDEAS American Revolution Philippe Raynaud Ancien RÉgime FranÇois Furet Aristocracy David D. Bien Centralization Yann Fauchois Counterrevolution Massimo Boffia Democracy Philippe Raynaud Enlightenment Bronislaw Baczko Equality Mona Ozouf Feudal System FranÇois Furet Fraternity Mona Ozouf Jacobinism FranÇois Furet Liberty Mona Ozouf Montesquieu <
SynopsisTwo centuries later, the French Revolution--that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy--continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. The ambition of this magnificent volume is not only to present the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also to bring one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate. Its form is as original as its goal: neither dictionary, in the traditional sense of the word, nor encyclopedia, it is deliberately limited to some ninety-nine entries organized alphabetically by key words and themes under five major headings: events , including the Estates General and the Terror; actors , such as Marie Antoinette, Marat, and Napoleon Bonaparte; institutions and creations , among them Revolutionary Calendar and Suffrage; ideas , covering, for example, Ancien Régime, the American Revolution, and Liberty; and historians and commentators , from Hegel to Tocqueville. In addition, there are synoptic indexes of names and themes that give the reader easy access to the entire volume as well as a key to its profound coherence. What unifies all the varied topics brought together in this dictionary is their authors' effort to be "critical." As such, the book rejects the dogmatism of closed systems and definitive interpretations. Its aim is less to make a complete inventory of the findings of the history of the French Revolution than to take stock of what remains problematical about those findings; this work thus offers the additional special quality of incorporating the rich historiographical literature unceasingly elaborated since 1789. With A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution , François Furet and Mona Ozouf invite the reader to recross the first two centuries of French democracy in order to gain a better understanding of the origins of the world in which we live today., Two centuries later, the French Revolution--that event that founded modern democracy--continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. This volume not only presents the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also brings one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate., Two centuries later, the French Revolution--that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy--continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. The ambition of this magnificent volume is not only to present the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also to bring one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate. Its form is as original as its goal: neither dictionary, in the traditional sense of the word, nor encyclopedia, it is deliberately limited to some ninety-nine entries organized alphabetically by key words and themes under five major headings: events , including the Estates General and the Terror; actors , such as Marie Antoinette, Marat, and Napoleon Bonaparte; institutions and creations , among them Revolutionary Calendar and Suffrage; ideas , covering, for example, Ancien R gime, the American Revolution, and Liberty; and historians and commentators , from Hegel to Tocqueville. In addition, there are synoptic indexes of names and themes that give the reader easy access to the entire volume as well as a key to its profound coherence. What unifies all the varied topics brought together in this dictionary is their authors' effort to be "critical." As such, the book rejects the dogmatism of closed systems and definitive interpretations. Its aim is less to make a complete inventory of the findings of the history of the French Revolution than to take stock of what remains problematical about those findings; this work thus offers the additional special quality of incorporating the rich historiographical literature unceasingly elaborated since 1789. With A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution , Fran ois Furet and Mona Ozouf invite the reader to recross the first two centuries of French democracy in order to gain a better understanding of the origins of the world in which we live today., Two centuries later, the French Revolution-that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy-continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. The ambition of this magnificent volume is not only to present the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also to bring one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate. Its form is as original as its goal: neither dictionary, in the traditional sense of the word, nor encyclopedia, it is deliberately limited to some ninety-nine entries organized alphabetically by key words and themes under five major headings: events , including the Estates General and the Terror; actors , such as Marie Antoinette, Marat, and Napoleon Bonaparte; institutions and creations , among them Revolutionary Calendar and Suffrage; ideas , covering, for example, Ancien Régime, the American Revolution, and Liberty; and historians and commentators , from Hegel to Tocqueville. In addition, there are synoptic indexes of names and themes that give the reader easy access to the entire volume as well as a key to its profound coherence. What unifies all the varied topics brought together in this dictionary is their authors' effort to be "critical." As such, the book rejects the dogmatism of closed systems and definitive interpretations. Its aim is less to make a complete inventory of the findings of the history of the French Revolution than to take stock of what remains problematical about those findings; this work thus offers the additional special quality of incorporating the rich historiographical literature unceasingly elaborated since 1789. With A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution , François Furet and Mona Ozouf invite the reader to recross the first two centuries of French democracy in order to gain a better understanding of the origins of the world in which we live today.
LC Classification NumberDC148.D5313 1989
