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The Old Regime and the Revolution
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2008-05-29
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0141919736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Ancien Régime 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 merciless critique of the ancien régime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.
Night the Old Regime Ended
Author: Michael P. Fitzsimmons
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0271046171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780486476025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This1856 volume constitutes one of the most important books ever written about the French Revolution. It explores the rebellion's origins and consequences, offering timeless insights into the pursuit of individual and political freedom."
Work and Revolution in France
Author: William H. Sewell, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1980-10-31
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521299510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sewell synthesizes the material on the social history of the French labor movement from its formative period to the first half of the 19th century. Centers on the Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848.
The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime
Author: William Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 0199291209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An exploration of current scholarly thinking about the wide and surprisingly complex range of historical problems associated with the study of Ancien Régime Europe
Feudalism, venality, and revolution
Author: Stephen Miller
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1526148366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king’s government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.
The Old Régime and the French Revolution
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
Author: Malick W. Ghachem
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-05
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0521836808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A provocative history of Haiti up to 1804, when Haitians became the first formerly enslaved people to overthrow a colonial slaveholding power.
