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Andrew Jainchill - Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French Liberalism - 9780801446696 - V9780801446696
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Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French Liberalism

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Description for Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French Liberalism Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 657.

In the wake of the Terror, France's political and intellectual elites set out to refound the Republic and, in so doing, reimagined the nature of the political order. They argued vigorously over imperial expansion, constitutional power, personal liberty, and public morality. In Reimagining Politics after the Terror, Andrew Jainchill rewrites the history of the origins of French Liberalism by telling the story of France's underappreciated "republican moment" during the tumultuous years between 1794 and Napoleon's declaration of a new French Empire in 1804.

Examining a wide range of political and theoretical debates, Jainchill offers a compelling reinterpretation of the political ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801446696
SKU
V9780801446696
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About Andrew Jainchill
Andrew Jainchill is Assistant Professor of History at Queen's University.

Reviews for Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French Liberalism
"Andrew Jainchill poses an historical problem with contemporary overtones. After his pathbreaking work, the decade between Thermidor and the establishment of the Empire will no longer be a political black hole during which bourgeois interests ran wild. The classical republican theories that had animated the revolutionaries did not disappear; private interest did not replace public spirit. Jainchill illustrates the emergence ... Read more

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