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New Man, New Nation, New World

The French Revolution in Myth and Reality- Edited by Janusz Adamowski- Translated by Alex Shannon

von Janusz Adamowski (Autor:in)
©2012 Monographie 296 Seiten

Zusammenfassung

In this new interpretation of the French Revolution, Jan Baszkiewicz examines revolutionary attempts to «regenerate» man, France and the world in the face of deep-seated and persistent traditions. Using a broad array of primary sources – including pamphlets, diaries, police reports, and debate protocols – Baszkiewicz analyzes the tools French revolutionaries used to build a new society on the wreckage of the Ancien Régime: Spectacular holidays, reforms in family and marriage law, general schooling, the Republican Calendar, the «liberation» of public spaces, education through work, a new religion, terror and war. In the end, the great plans for regeneration failed, though the myths that surrounded those failures lived on well into the twentieth century.

Details

Seiten
296
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783653023398
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631615768
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02339-8
Sprache
Englisch
Erscheinungsdatum
2012 (Mai)
Schlagworte
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Talleyrand Robespierre Equality Liberty
Erschienen
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2012. 296 pp.
Produktsicherheit
Peter Lang Group AG

Biographische Angaben

Janusz Adamowski (Autor:in)

Jan Baszkiewicz (1930-2011) was a Polish historian whose fields of research included political thought, social movements and political institutions. Much of his work focused on the Age of Enlightenment and the history of France. Other than New Man, New Nation, New World, his most popular works covered Robespierre, Danton and Richelieu.

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