Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt

Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt

When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.

Lynn Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Family Romance of the French Revolution (California, 1992) and the editor (with Victoria E. Bonnell) of Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (California, 1999). She was President of the American Historical Association in 2002-2003.

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ISBN 13	9780520241565
ISBN 10	0520241568
Title	Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution
Author	Lynn Hunt
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of California Press
Year published	2004-05-28
Number of pages	272
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