Inventing the French Revolution : essays on French political culture in the eighteenth century /
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| Author / Creator: | Baker, Keith Michael |
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. |
| Description: | x, 372 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ideas in context |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/999026 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. On the problem of the ideological origins of the French Revolution
- Part I. French History at Issue
- 2. Memory and practice: politics and the representation of the past in eighteenth-century France
- 3. Controlling French history: the ideological arsenal of Jacob-Nicolas Moreau
- 4. A script for a French revolution: the political consciousness of the abbT Mably
- Part II. The Language of Politics at the End of the Old Regime
- 5. French political thought at the accession of Louis XVI
- 6. A classical republican in eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Guillaume-Joseph Saige
- 7. Science and politics at the end of the old regime
- 8. Public opinion as political invention
- Part III. Toward a Revolutionary Lexicon
- 9. Inventing the French Revolution
- 10. Representation redefined
- 11. Fixing the French constitution
- Notes
- Index