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Genre/Form: | History Sources |
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Named Person: | Napoleon, Emperor of the French; Napoléon, empereur des Français; Napoleon, Emperor of the French |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian L Donnachie; Carmen Lavin |
ISBN: | 0719066727 9780719066726 0719066735 9780719066733 0719066700 9780719066702 0719066719 9780719066719 |
OCLC Number: | 52728994 |
Notes: | "This is the second of two anthologies ..."--Introduction. |
Description: | volumes <2> : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Death of the Old Regime? -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni -- Memoirs of Lorenzo da Ponte / Lorenzo da Ponte -- Don Giovanni synopsis / Donald Burrows -- Faith and death in the late Enlightenment -- Of the Immortality of the Soul / David Hume -- Of Suicide / David Hume -- extracts from Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The priest's journey -- A sensing self -- God and His properties -- Our position in the universe and in society -- How we should live -- Revealed religion and the model of Jesus -- Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man / Marquis de Sade -- The French Revolution -- What is the Third Estate?, 1789 / Abbe Sieyes -- Gustav III of Sweden on the fall of the Bastille, 1789 -- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789 / National Assembly -- Decree on the Abolition of the Nobility, 19 June 1790 / National Assembly -- Edmund Burke on the French Revolution, 1790 -- Marquis de la Queuille protesting against the oath to the constitution, 1790 -- Jean-Paul Marat on 'a general insurrection and popular executions', 1790 -- Emperor Leopold II of Austria on the French Revolution, 1791 -- Emperor Leopold II of Austria and King Frederick-William II of Prussia, The Declaration of Pillnitz, 1791 -- Hebert on Louis XVI after the flight to Varennes, 1791 -- Hebert calls for the execution of Louis XVI, 1792 -- Decree on the Death Penalty, 1792 / Legislative Assembly -- France Calls on the People of Belgium to Revolt, 1792 / National Assembly. |
Series Title: | A 207 |
Responsibility: | edited by Carmen Lavin and Ian Donnachie. |
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Abstract:
Designed to accompany the OU course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", this anthology provides primary and secondary sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Introductory sections explain the context and importance of the sources.
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