Children of the Revolution is a wonderful account of how the French repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a new, stable regime for themselves. For those who lived through the quarter-century from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon's final defeat, these events left such a profound mark that no subsequent king, emperor or president could ever match up. No regime seemed to be able to establish itself - whether in favour of, or against the Revolution's values - without generating fresh, often murderous opposition. ...
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Children of the Revolution is a wonderful account of how the French repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a new, stable regime for themselves. For those who lived through the quarter-century from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon's final defeat, these events left such a profound mark that no subsequent king, emperor or president could ever match up. No regime seemed to be able to establish itself - whether in favour of, or against the Revolution's values - without generating fresh, often murderous opposition. These fratricidal hatreds affected all aspects of French life, and distorted families, religion, art, foreign policy, and education, with each generation of the Revolution's `children' struggling with deeply divided loyalties. This is a richly enjoyable and surprising book. It reveals a strikingly unfamiliar France: a country with an often-overwhelming gap between Paris and the provinces, in which feminism had its own, tortured history, and which managed to lie at the heart of modernity and yet was agonised by a sense of its fall from former greatness. Robert Gildea ends Children of the Revolution with an account of the opening of the First World War, where France finally - and at a horrific cost - found the unity and sense of national purpose that had eluded it for so long, finally burying the ghosts of the Revolution.
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Cambridge. 2008. Harvard University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780674032095. 540 pages. hardcover. Jacket art-Detail, Alfred Roll, 'The 14th of July 1880.'. keywords: History France French Revolution. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The dazzling allure of France throughout the nineteenth century made it one of the world's great cultural beacons: in art, technology, literature, and science, it renewed itself over and over again. And yet, behind this facade, France was a country wracked with anxiety, crushed by a sense of national decline and, above all, unable to resolve the chaotic legacy of the Revolution. For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon's final defeat, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION follows the ensuing generations who repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a stable regime after the trauma of 1789. The process encouraged fresh and often murderous oppositions between those who were for, and those who were against, the Revolution's values. Bearing the scars of their country's bloody struggle, and its legacy of deeply divided loyalties, the French lived the long nineteenth century in the shadow of the revolutionary age. Despite the ghosts raised in this epic tale, Robert Gildea has written a richly engaging and provocative book. His is a strikingly unfamiliar France, a country with an often overwhelming gap between Paris and the provinces, a country torn apart by fratricidal hatreds and a tortured history of feminism, the site of political catastrophes and artistic triumphs, and a. country that managed-despite a pervasive awareness of its own fall from grace-to fix itself squarely at the heart of modernity. Indeed, Gildea reveals how the collective recognition of the great costs of the Revolution galvanized the French to achieve consensus in a new republic and to integrate the tumultuous past into their sense of national identity. It was in this spirit that France's young men went to the front in World War I with a powerful sense of national confidence and purpose. inventory #36666.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 7x0x4; Minor shelf wear to binding with bumped corners. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Loose front hinge. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1050grams, ISBN: 9780713997606.
