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“arnaud orain”

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  • The Politics of Utopia

    A New History of John Law's System, 1695–1795

    by Arnaud Orain ...
    A fascinating retelling of the first banking and financial collapse in eighteenth-century France.The Scottish economist John Law has been described as the architect of modern central banking. His "System," established in Regency France between 1716 and 1720, saw the founding of a bank issuing paper money and the establishment of state commercial and colonial enterprises aimed at consolidating ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neoliberalism is Over

    Enclosure, Empire and the End of the Free Market

    by Arnaud Orain ...

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  • The Revolutionary Temper

    Paris, 1748-1789

    by Robert Darnton ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice“This captivating history of the decades leading up to the French Revolution…immerse[s] readers in what agitated Parisians read, wore, ate and sang on the way to toppling the monarchy of Louis XVI.” —New York Times Book ReviewA groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide acclaim.**When a Parisian crowd ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • The Terror of Natural Right

    Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, & the French Revolution

    by Dan Edelstein ...
    Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the "enemy of the human race"—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be ... Read more

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  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Germaine de Staël

    A Political Portrait

    by Biancamaria Fontana ...
    The first in-depth look at Staël's political life and writingsGermaine de Staël (1766–1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. Biancamaria Fontana sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Staël's life and work, bringing vividly to life her unique ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • The Great Demarcation

    The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property

    by Rafe Blaufarb ...
    What does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries between private and public property? Over the course of a decade, the French Revolution grappled with these questions. Punctuated by false starts, contingencies, and unexpected results, this process laid the foundations of the Napoleonic Code and modern ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • From Deficit to Deluge

    The Origins of the French Revolution

    Edited by Thomas E. Kaiser, Dale K. Van Kley ...
    From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the 1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial policy. In this ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Revolutionary Self

    Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    An illuminating exploration of the tensions between self and society in the age of revolutions.Since the eighteenth century, one of the defining concerns of modern life has been the tension between the self and society: we believe in a person’s autonomy, but we also acknowledge that people are shaped by social and cultural forces. The Revolutionary Self delves into this paradox, turning to the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

    by Roger Chartier ...
    Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane ...
    Series series Bicentennial reflections on the French Revolution
    Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins” but by pinpointing the conditions that “made is possible because conceivable.”Chartier has set ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Montaigne

    A Life

    by Philippe Desan ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
    A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and stoically detaching himself from his ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • A Companion to the French Revolution

    Edited by Peter McPhee ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to European History
    A Companion to the French Revolution comprises twenty-nine newly-written essays reassessing the origins, development, and impact of this great turning-point in modern history.Examines the origins, development and impact of the French RevolutionFeatures original contributions from leading historians, including six essays translated from French.Presents a wide-ranging overview of current historical ... Read more

    $45.00 USD