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Oxford University Press, USA
Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present
Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present
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Renowned historian, essayist, and journalist David A. Bell has long made France and its history the subject of his scholarly gaze and the object of his enduring affection. Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present gathers together his writing, composed over a period of
more than 25 years, into a single volume. As the title of this collection suggests, Bell views much of French history through the lens of the Revolutionary era. Within a space of a dozen years, from Bastille to Bonaparte, the country experimented with and experienced every form of governance,
creating in the process, as Bell puts it, the most intense political laboratory the world had ever known. The Revolution remains the country's defining era, delineating its sense of identity and overshadowing the events that followed it. Yet another, Bell argues, is the Vichy period and World War
Two-France's dark night of the soul-with whose legacies the country continues to contend. These two moments of violent and transformative upheaval may dominate French history, but as this collection and Bell's observational powers reveal, the full range of topics involving France is endlessly rich
and diverse. Divided into eight sections, it connects France's education to its national identity, the Enlightenment to the Revolution and human rights, Napoleon to Victor Hugo, and nineteenth-century anti-Semitism to such recent events such as the riots of 2006, the Arab Spring, and the Charlie
Hebdo tragedy. Shadows of Revolution embodies and reflects the endlessly fascinating and entertaining complexity of French history, and shows the ways in which it has shaped world history.
Author: David A. Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/05/2016
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780190262686
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 02/29/2016
more than 25 years, into a single volume. As the title of this collection suggests, Bell views much of French history through the lens of the Revolutionary era. Within a space of a dozen years, from Bastille to Bonaparte, the country experimented with and experienced every form of governance,
creating in the process, as Bell puts it, the most intense political laboratory the world had ever known. The Revolution remains the country's defining era, delineating its sense of identity and overshadowing the events that followed it. Yet another, Bell argues, is the Vichy period and World War
Two-France's dark night of the soul-with whose legacies the country continues to contend. These two moments of violent and transformative upheaval may dominate French history, but as this collection and Bell's observational powers reveal, the full range of topics involving France is endlessly rich
and diverse. Divided into eight sections, it connects France's education to its national identity, the Enlightenment to the Revolution and human rights, Napoleon to Victor Hugo, and nineteenth-century anti-Semitism to such recent events such as the riots of 2006, the Arab Spring, and the Charlie
Hebdo tragedy. Shadows of Revolution embodies and reflects the endlessly fascinating and entertaining complexity of French history, and shows the ways in which it has shaped world history.
Author: David A. Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/05/2016
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780190262686
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 02/29/2016
About the Author
David A. Bell is the author of four previous books, including the prize-winning The First Total War. Bell has taught European history at Yale, Johns Hopkins (where he served as Dean of Faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences) and is now Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History at Princeton.
He has received numerous fellowships, including a Guggenheim. He writes regularly for a number of journals and magazines, and for eleven years was a Contributing Editor of The New Republic.
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