Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution Hobsbawm Eric
Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution Hobsbawm Eric What was the French Revolution? Did it empower the common man, or just the bourgeoisie? Was it the triumph…
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Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution Hobsbawm Eric
What was the French Revolution? Did it empower the common man, or just the bourgeoisie? Was it the triumph of Enlightenment humanist principles, or a violent reign of terror?
Hobsbawm's classic historiographic study--written at the very moment when a new set of revolutions swept through the Eastern Bloc and brought down the Iron Curtain--explores how the French Revolution was perceived over the following two centuries. And was it a turning point in world history, or a mere anomaly?E.J. He traces how the French Revolution became integral to nineteenth-century political discourse, when everyone from bourgeois liberals to radical socialists cited these historical events, even as they disagreed on what their meaning.
And he considers why references to the French Revolution continued to inflame passions into the twentieth century, as a rhetorical touchstone for communist
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