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14%OFFDaniel Roche - France in the Enlightenment - 9780674001992 - V9780674001992
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France in the Enlightenment

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Description for France in the Enlightenment Paperback. By placing politics and material culture at the heart of historical change, Daniel Roche captures the complexity and depth of the Enlightenment. He shows the reader the 18th-century France of the peasant, the merchant, the noble, the King, from Paris to the provinces. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 732 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 968.
A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this work by Daniel Roche. The text brings the Old Regime to life by showing how its institutions operated and how they were understood by the people who worked within them. Roche begins with a map of space and time, depicting France as a mosaic of overlapping geographical units, with people and goods traversing it to the rhythms of everyday life. He fills this frame with the patterns of rural life, urban culture, and government institutions. In this text the reader sees the 18th-century French ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
732
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
Harvard Historical Studies
Condition
New
Weight
968g
Number of Pages
732
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674001992
SKU
V9780674001992
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About Daniel Roche
Daniel Roche is Professor of Modern History at the University of Paris 1 Panth on-Sorbonne and Directeur d' tudes at the cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales.

Reviews for France in the Enlightenment
This book is much more than a simple history of the Enlightenment
it is social and intellectual history combined...This is a brilliant and sweeping work of synthesis by one of the most prominent historians of 18th-century France.
Marie Marmo Mullaney Library Journal [An] always illuminating, often dazzling overview of Enlightenment France, a work surely destined for classic status.
Colin Jones ... Read more

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