Michael Sonenscher: The French Revolution

Cover: 9781009463904 | The French Revolution | Michael Sonenscher | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Three questions have usually been asked about the French Revolution: why did it happen? why was it so violent? and what was its legacy? These questions seem to beg other, more conceptually ambitious queries about causation, violence or legacies. This book aims to answer both sets of questions by bringing together events and ideas. Michael Sonenscher draws on neglected aspects of eighteenth-century intellectual and political life and thought to demonstrate the importance of ideas for making connections between historical explanation and historical narrative. Concisely synthesizing a broad range of established scholarship, Sonenscher utilises new and fresh information to explore why using ideas as evidence adds a dimension of novelty, possibility, expectation and choice to the social, cultural and political history of the French [...] is history about what was expected, but did not happen, and what was unexpected, but really did.

Über den Autor

Michael Sonenscher is a Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge. He has written several books on the French Revolution, including Before the Deluge (2007) and Sans-Culottes (2009), as well as two broader studies in the history of political thought: Capitalism: The Story behind the Word (2022) and After Kant: The Romans, the Germans and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought (2023).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Ideas as Evidence; 2. Concepts of Revolution; 3. Causes and Causation; 4. Cutting the Cable: Rousseau, Sieyes and the Idea of a Representative System; 5. The Cement of Society: The Republican Alternative to the Representative System; 6. Constituent Power and Political Power; 7. The Failure of the Feuillants; 8. The Sans-Culottes; 9. Robespierre and the Politics of the Terror; 10. The War for the World: Imperial Power and Social Science; 11. Conclusion: The Legacy; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781009463904
ISBN-10:	100946390X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Sonenscher, Michael
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Michael Sonenscher
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.05.2026
Gewicht:	0,358 kg