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Title Rethinking the age of revolutions : France and the birth of the modern world / edited by David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Contents Nature or Nation?: Rights Conflicts in the Age of the French Revolution / Dan Edelstein -- Every Island is Not Haiti: The French Revolution in the Windward Islands / Paul Friedland -- The Politics of Popularity: Celebrity Culture and the French Revolution / Antoine Lilti -- Charismatic Authority in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France / David A. Bell -- The Fate of Nations is the Work of Genius: The French Revolution and the Great Man Theory of History / Darrin McMahon -- New History: The Radical Pasts of the French Revolution, 1789-1794 / Joseph Zizek -- The Thermidorians' Terror: Atrocities, Tragedies, Trauma / Howard G. Brown -- Of Revolutions and the Problem of Choice / Sophia Rosenfeld
Summary This new collection brings together some of the most exciting and important research now being done on the French Revolutionary era. The essays show the continuing vitality and importance of the field for anyone interested in the origins of some of the most important issues in the politics and culture of the modern West
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Revolutions -- History -- 18th century
Revolutions -- History -- 19th century
History, Modern -- 18th century.
History, Modern -- 19th century.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
History, Modern
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and government
Revolutions
SUBJECT France -- Politics and government -- 1799-1815. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051475
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051332
France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815 -- Influence
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045742
Subject Europe
France
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bell, David A. (David Avrom), editor.
Mintzker, Yair, editor.
ISBN 9780190674816
0190674814
9780190674830
0190674830