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Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution
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Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution

Author: Simon Schama
Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1989.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.
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Schama, Simon.
Citizens.
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1989
(OCoLC)756448797
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Simon Schama
ISBN: 0394559487 9780394559483
OCLC Number: 18715376
Notes: Includes indexes.
Description: xx, 948 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS --
Alterations: the France of Louis XVI --
New men --
Blue horizons, red ink --
Absolutism attacked --
The cultural construction of a citizen --
The costs of modernity --
Expectations --
Body politics --
Suicides, 1787-1788 --
Grievances, Autumn 1788-Spring 1789 --
Improvising a nation --
Bastille, July 1789 --
Choices --
Reason and unreason, July-November 1789 --
Acts of faith, October 1789-July 1790 --
Departures, August 1790-July 1791 --
"Marseillaise," September 1791-August 1792 --
Impure blood, August 1792-January 1793 --
Virtue and death --
Enemies of the people? winter-spring 1793 --
"Terror is the order of the day" --
The politics of turpitude --
Chiliasm, April-July 1794.
Responsibility: Simon Schama.
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Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.

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