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12 produkter
The Place of Words
The Académie Française and Its Dictionary during an Age of Revolution
Inbunden, 2018
1771 kr
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The primary responsibility of the Académie Française to compose a dictionary of the French language intersected with major undercurrents of the French Revolution, and its significance continued through the Napoleonic period and into the Restoration. Yet, despite being such a prominent institution …
Place of Words
The Academie Francaise and Its Dictionary during an Age of Revolution
E-bok, 2017
1114 kr
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As the tricolor rose over revolutionary France, language, with its ability to define ideals and allegiances, was both a threat to authority and weapon to be wielded. In the early years of the Republic, the Académie Française, the royal body responsible for the French language, was suppressed by …
Place of Words
The Academie Francaise and Its Dictionary during an Age of Revolution
E-bok, 2017
1114 kr
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As the tricolor rose over revolutionary France, language, with its ability to define ideals and allegiances, was both a threat to authority and weapon to be wielded. In the early years of the Republic, the Académie Française, the royal body responsible for the French language, was suppressed by …
The Forgotten Constitution
The Origins, Realization, and Legacy of the French Constitution of 1791
Inbunden, 2025
1270 kr
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The French Constitution of 1791 has a major legacy that overturned many centuries of historical tradition but remains little known outside of France. It ratified the unprecedented transformation of a society based on monarchy-centered government and legal privilege to one based on a sovereign …
Forgotten Constitution
The Origins, Realization, and Legacy of the French Constitution of 1791
E-bok, 2025
1354 kr
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The French Constitution of 1791 has a major legacy that overturned many centuries of historical tradition but remains little known outside of France. It ratified the unprecedented transformation of a society based on monarchy-centered government and legal privilege to one based on a sovereign …
Forgotten Constitution
The Origins, Realization, and Legacy of the French Constitution of 1791
E-bok, 2025
1354 kr
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The French Constitution of 1791 has a major legacy that overturned many centuries of historical tradition but remains little known outside of France. It ratified the unprecedented transformation of a society based on monarchy-centered government and legal privilege to one based on a sovereign …
Night the Old Regime Ended
August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution
Häftad, 2006
618 kr
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If the Fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, marks the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution, then August 4 is the day the Old Regime ended, for it was on that day (or, more precisely, that night) that the National Assembly met and undertook sweeping reforms that ultimately led to a complete …
From Artisan to Worker
Guilds, the French State, and the Organization of Labor, 1776-1821
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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From Artisan to Worker examines the largely overlooked debate over the potential reestablishment of guilds that occurred from 1776 to 1821. The abolition of guilds in 1791 overturned an organization of labor that had been in place for centuries. The disorder that ensued - from concerns about the …
The Remaking of France
The National Assembly and the Constitution of 1791
Inbunden, 1994
1610 kr
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How did the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity evolve out of the corporate structure of the Old Regime in France? This 1994 study investigates the evolution of a new ideal in polity in 1789 and the reaction of French society to it. Concentrating especially on the restructuring of the …
The Remaking of France
The National Assembly and the Constitution of 1791
Häftad, 2002
738 kr
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How did the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity evolve out of the corporate structure of the Old Regime in France? This 1994 study investigates the evolution of a new ideal in polity in 1789 and the reaction of French society to it. Concentrating especially on the restructuring of the …
Parisian Order of Barristers and the French Revolution
Inbunden, 1987
465 kr
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Did barristers as a professional group support the French Revolution, or were they most often “in flight from politics”? A close inquiry into the Order of Barristers at Paris—the largest and most important in France, with over six hundred members in 1789—reveals that the vast majority within the …
From Artisan to Worker
Guilds, the French State, and the Organization of Labor, 1776-1821
Häftad, 2014
720 kr
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From Artisan to Worker examines the largely overlooked debate over the potential reestablishment of guilds that occurred from 1776 to 1821. The abolition of guilds in 1791 overturned an organization of labor that had been in place for centuries. The disorder that ensued - from concerns about the …
