{"product_id":"shadows-of-revolution-reflections-on-france-past-and-present-9780190262686","title":"Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present","description":"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. \u003cem\u003eShadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present\u003c\/em\u003e gathers together his writing, composed over a period of\u003cbr\u003emore 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, \u003cbr\u003ecreating 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\u003cbr\u003eTwo-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\u003cbr\u003eand 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\u003cbr\u003eHebdo tragedy. \u003cem\u003eShadows of Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e embodies and reflects the endlessly fascinating and entertaining complexity of French history, and shows the ways in which it has shaped world history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David A. Bell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190262686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid A. Bell \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of four previous books, including the prize-winning \u003cem\u003eThe First Total War.\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eHe 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 \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929197559923,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_49fa6d05-c725-4e22-bcb2-bfa551874322.jpg?v=1647610967","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/shadows-of-revolution-reflections-on-france-past-and-present-9780190262686","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}