
- 328 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
This book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia) as well as in the United States between 1789 and 1989. It also goes on to examine recent trends in French Revolution historiography and consider where histories of this landmark event may go in the future. By emphasizing the elements which have been valued or hidden, exalted or silenced, Historicizing the French Revolution shows how reflections on 1789 are always fundamentally tied to the times in which they are formulated. Antonino De Francesco looks at the ways in which these historical accounts can be seen to support and, at times, contrast with the formation of political modernity – both in national and international contexts – as it has taken shape in the hundreds of years that have followed this key moment in world history.
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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The rules of all revolutionary history, 1789–1815
- Chapter 2: Confronting France’s revolutionary past, 1815–47
- Chapter 3: From national myth to the myth of nations, 1848–75
- Chapter 4: A republican history?, 1875–1914
- Chapter 5: The revolutionary use of history, 1914–45
- Chapter 6: Revolutionary orthodoxy and historians’ heresies, 1946–89
- Conclusion: The ashes of the revolution?
- Notes
- Index