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Time and the French Revolution
Matthew Shaw
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A history of the innovation and effects of the French Republican Calendar. The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not only reformed the weeks and months of the year, but decimalisedthe hours of the day and dated the year from the beginning of the French Republic. This book not only provides a history of the calendar, but places it in the context of eighteenth-century time-consciousness, arguing that the French were adept at working within several systems of time-keeping, whether that ... Read more
A history of the innovation and effects of the French Republican Calendar. The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not only reformed the weeks and months of the year, but decimalisedthe hours of the day and dated the year from the beginning of the French Republic. This book not only provides a history of the calendar, but places it in the context of eighteenth-century time-consciousness, arguing that the French were adept at working within several systems of time-keeping, whether that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780861933112
SKU
V9780861933112
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About Matthew Shaw
Curator, British Library
Reviews for Time and the French Revolution
Uses detailed archival research to uncover a quantity of new material about the development and implementation of the calendar during the revolutionary period.
EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY
Full of fascinating details.
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
There is much of value here.
H-FRANCE REVIEW
Labor historians will be interested in how labor and markets were organized ... Read more
EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY
Full of fascinating details.
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
There is much of value here.
H-FRANCE REVIEW
Labor historians will be interested in how labor and markets were organized ... Read more