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Citizens : a Chronicle of the French Revolution / Simon Schama.

By: Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©1989Edition: 1st editionDescription: xx, 948 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0394559487
  • 9780394559483
  • 0394221451
  • 9780394221458
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 944.04 19
LOC classification:
  • DC148 .S43 1989
NLM classification:
  • 944.04 S299c
Other classification:
  • 15.70
  • 15.65
  • NO 3100
Contents:
Alterations: the France of Louis XVI -- New men -- Blue horizons, red ink -- Absolutism attacked -- The cultural construction of a citizen -- The costs of modernity -- Expectations -- Body politics -- Suicides, 1787-1788 -- Grievances, Autumn 1788-Spring 1789 -- Improvising a nation -- Bastille, July 1789 -- Choices -- Reason and unreason, July-November 1789 -- Acts of faith, October 1789-July 1790 -- Departures, August 1790-July 1791 -- "Marseillaise," September 1791-August 1792 -- Impure blood, August 1792-January 1793 -- Virtue and death -- Enemies of the people? winter-spring 1793 -- "Terror is the order of the day" -- The politics of turpitude -- Chiliasm, April-July 1794.
Awards:
  • NCR Book Award, 1990.
Summary: Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) DC 148 .S43 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 17104

Includes bibliographical references (pages 879-906) and index.

Alterations: the France of Louis XVI -- New men -- Blue horizons, red ink -- Absolutism attacked -- The cultural construction of a citizen -- The costs of modernity -- Expectations -- Body politics -- Suicides, 1787-1788 -- Grievances, Autumn 1788-Spring 1789 -- Improvising a nation -- Bastille, July 1789 -- Choices -- Reason and unreason, July-November 1789 -- Acts of faith, October 1789-July 1790 -- Departures, August 1790-July 1791 -- "Marseillaise," September 1791-August 1792 -- Impure blood, August 1792-January 1793 -- Virtue and death -- Enemies of the people? winter-spring 1793 -- "Terror is the order of the day" -- The politics of turpitude -- Chiliasm, April-July 1794.

Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.

NCR Book Award, 1990.

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