Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution

by Hunt, Lynn

• ISBN13: 9780520241565
• ISBN10: 0520241568
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Lynn Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
List of Plates	ix
List of Maps	x
Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition	xi
Acknowledgments to the 1984 Edition	xvii
Chronology	xix
Abbreviations	xxii
Introduction: Interpreting the French Revolution	1	(18)
PART I: THE POETICS OF POWER
1. The Rhetoric of Revolution	19	(33)
2. Symbolic Forms of Political Practice	52	(35)
3. The Imagery of Radicalism	87	(36)
PART II: THE SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICS
4. The Political Geography of Revolution	123	(26)
5. The New Political Class	149	(31)
6. Outsiders, Culture Brokers, and Political Networks	180	(33)
Conclusion: Revolution in Political Culture	213	(24)
Appendix A: Correlation Matrix of Selected Political, Economic, and Demographic Variables	237	(5)
Appendix B: Occupational Analysis of City Councillors in Amiens, Bordeaux, Nancy, and Toulouse	242	(3)
Index	245