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Vor 5 Tagen · Simon Burrows effectively redraws the landscape of the pre-Revolutionary reader, along the way exploding several ‘popular and historical myths’ (as he pleasantly terms them) about the impact of pornographic pamphlets on political thinking.
Vor einem Tag · The political legacy of the Revolution was bitterly contested, within France and beyond. The violence that came with the Revolution precludes any easy answers to the continuing problem of that legacy. Yet many of the questions first raised by the revolutionaries still resonate with us. The right to democracy, political equality ...
Vor 4 Tagen · A People’s History of the French Revolution surely is a fascinating encounter with what is to be considered one of the founding events of modern Western society. It illustrates how the power resides in the people – something Hazan clearly wants us to remember.
Vor 2 Tagen · The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
Vor 2 Tagen · The Council of Five Hundred was the lower house. Deputies were elected (indirectly) to three-year terms. There was a major shift in the political views of the deputies selected in each election. Royalists did well in the Year V (1797), and the Jacobins recovered in the Year VI (1798).
Vor 4 Tagen · 1073. Text. The National Assembly took this name on 9 July 1789, to reflect its self-appointed mission to write a constitution for France. The Constituent faced numerous crises until it disbanded at the end of September 1791.
Vor 5 Tagen · Indeed, the level of detail can become overwhelming. Even readers familiar with the Weimar political landscape will have frequent recourse to the Abbreviations page as they pick through the bewildering array of pressure groups, start-ups, think tanks and paramilitary groupings that enveloped and sought to influence the DNVP’s Reichstag caucus ...
