Echoes of the Marseillaise : two centuries look back on the French Revolution
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Echoes of the Marseillaise : two centuries look back on the French Revolution
(Mason Welch Gross lecture series)(Rutgers University Press classics)
Rutgers University Press, 2019, c1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: A Revolution of the Middle Class
Chapter 2: Beyond the Bourgeoisie
Chapter 3: From One Centenary to Another
Chapter 4: Surviving Revision
Appendix
Notes
Index
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