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Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution

Lynn Hunt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:11th Jun '04

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When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.

ISBN: 9780520241565

Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 18mm

Weight: 318g

272 pages