France before 1789 by Jon Elster
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophersFrance before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien regime and its complex social system in the decades before the French Revolution. Jon Elster writes i
"[Jon Elster] has managed to plumb the depths of archives and combine that with his penetrating insight into human behaviourThe result is a very different picture of the motivations for the revolution instead of the usual ‘let them eat cake’ variety of history."---Siddharth Singh, Open Magazine
"[France before 1789] has a cool, clear style."---Hamish Gobson, Think Scotland
"Elster’s knowledge of French history is as extensive as it is impressive. . . . Many of us would like to understand things more fully and more clearly than often we do, and that a narrowly empirical approach allows. This is one of the reasons that works such as that of Jon Elster enrich the writing of history by raising new questions and positing new ways of looking at things."---Harvey Chisick, The European Legacy
"[France before 1789] has a cool, clear style."---Hamish Gobson, Think Scotland
"Elster’s knowledge of French history is as extensive as it is impressive. . . . Many of us would like to understand things more fully and more clearly than often we do, and that a narrowly empirical approach allows. This is one of the reasons that works such as that of Jon Elster enrich the writing of history by raising new questions and positing new ways of looking at things."---Harvey Chisick, The European Legacy
Jon Elster is the Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and honorary professor at the Collège de France. His many books include Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections; Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist; and Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality. He lives in Oslo, Norway.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691241524 |
| ISBN 10 | 069124152X |
| Title | France before 1789 |
| Author | Jon Elster |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2022-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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