Tocqueville: The Ancien Rgime and the French Revolution (Elster Jon)(Paperback)

Tocqueville: The Ancien Rgime and the French Revolution (Elster Jon)(Paperback)

The Ancien Rgime and the Revolution (Tocqueville Alexis De)(Paperback)

A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville's influential look at the origins of modern France The Ancien R gime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective observer of both periods - providing a

French Revolution - From Enlightenment to Tyranny (Davidson Ian)(Paperback / softback)

A clear and fast-paced account of how and why the French Revolution descended into the

The French Revolution (Carlyle Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendemaire. Both in its form and content, the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself, with Carlyle exploding the

Explaining Social Behavior (Elster Jon)(Paperback)

In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social behavior, proposing choice as the central concept of the social sciences. Extensively revised throughout, the book offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms, drawing on many case studies and

The French Revolution, 1789-1799 (McPhee Peter)(Paperback)

This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates among historians.The book has two main aims

Democracy in America (de Tocqueville Alexis)(Paperback)

In the early 19th century, a French sociologist and political scientist undertook a seven-month journey throughout the newly formed United States. Alexis de Tocqueville surveyed the young nation's religious, political, and economic character and reported his findings in two volumes, published in

Citizens - A Chronicle of The French Revolution (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of

The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution (Tackett Timothy)(Paperback)

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Doyle William)(Paperback)

The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of extreme political and social unrest saw the end of the French monarchy, the death of an extraordinary

The Improvement of Humanity: Education and the French Revolution (Palmer R. R.)(Paperback)

This work examines education in both theory and practice during the Enlightenment and the French Revolution when educators aimed at nothing less than reforming humanity and creating a new society. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology

Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (Tocqueville Alexis De)(Paperback)

A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9

Liberty or Death: The French Revolution (McPhee Peter)(Paperback)

In this strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe, the author draws startling conclusions about life during the years of upheaval and the Revolution's perplexing, fascinating legacy

Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Comay Rebecca)(Paperback)

This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the upheaval in German philosophy inaugurated by the Protestant Reformation and

The French Revolution: From its Origins to 1793 (Lefebvre Georges)(Paperback)

Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of

The French Revolution: A History in Documents (Alpaugh Micah)(Paperback)

The French Revolution: A History in Documents explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors themselves. It demonstrates how radical Enlightenment philosophy fused with a governmental crisis

French Revolution and What Went Wrong (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a

The French Revolution in Global Perspective (Desan Suzanne)(Paperback)

Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of

Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings: Poverty, Public Welfare, and Inequality (de Tocqueville Alexis)(Paperback)

The collection includes new translations of Tocqueville's works, including the first English translation of his Second Memoir, the original Memoir, a letter fragment considering pauperism in Normandy, and the ''Pauperism in America'' index to the Penitentiary Report.Alexis de Tocqueville was one of

Terror - Civil War in the French Revolution (Andress David)(Paperback / softback)

In this wholly definitive work, David Andress examines the The French Revolution: the birth of a new ideological age and the bloody emergence of Europe's first political

The Oxford History of the French Revolution: Third Edition (Doyle William)(Paperback)

Since its first publication to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, this Oxford History has established itself as the Revolution's most authoritative and comprehensive one-volume history in English, and has recently been translated into Chinese. Running from the accession of Louis

The French Revolution: A study in Democracy (Webster Nesta)(Paperback)

The French Revolution is no dead event; in turning over the contemporary records of those tremendous days we feel that we are touching live things; from the yellowed pages voices call to us, voices that still vibrate with the passions that stirred them more than a century ago - here the desperate

History of the French Revolution (Michelet Jules)(Paperback)

The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers (Jones Ted)(Paperback)

The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the fourteenth century. The Cote d'Azur has provided the inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers is a