The Revolution - I
Anarchy
Volume number two of Taine's Origins of Contemporary France deals with the first stages of the French Revolution, from its immediate prelude, the winter of 1788, until the rise of 'the Mountain'. Taine details the dire economic and administrative conditions that led to the convocation of the States-General, the psychological transformation of the populace as it became aware of its squalid condition, and the intervention of ruffians and vagabonds, who sowed discord with rhetoric based on the 'new ideas', these malefactors interpreting political developments as it suited their vengeful and destructive instincts. From there, Taine catalogues the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-910893-02-9
- EAN: 9781910893029
- Produktnummer: 34991241
- Verlag: Hounskull Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 680 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D4.3 cm 1'040 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 1040
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