{"product_id":"a-rhetoric-of-bourgeois-revolution-the-abbe-sieyes-and-what-is-the-third-estate-9780822315384","title":"A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The ABBE Sieyes and What Is the Third Estate?","description":"\u003ci\u003eWhat Is the Third Estate?\u003c\/i\u003e was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course. It also launched its author, the Abb  Sieyes, on a remarkable political career that spanned the entire revolutionary decade. Sieyes both opened the revolution by authoring the National Assembly's declaration of sovereignty in June of 1789 and closed it in 1799 by engineering Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d' tat.\u003cbr\u003eThis book studies the powerful rhetoric of the great pamphlet and the brilliant but enigmatic thought of its author. William H. Sewell's insightful analysis reveals the fundamental role played by the new discourse of political economy in Sieyes's thought and uncovers the strategies by which this gifted rhetorician gained the assent of his intended readers-educated and prosperous bourgeois who felt excluded by the nobility in the hierarchical social order of the old regime. He also probes the contradictions and incoherencies of the pamphlet's highly polished text to reveal fissures that reach to the core of Sieyes's thought-and to the core of the revolutionary project itself.\u003cbr\u003eCombining techniques of intellectual history and literary analysis with a deep understanding of French social and political history, Sewell not only fashions an illuminating portrait of a crucial political document, but outlines a fresh perspective on the history of revolutionary political culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William H. Sewell  Jr.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 5.75w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822315384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam H. Sewell, Jr. is Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eWork and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, and \u003ci\u003eStructure and Mobility: The Men and Women of Marseille, 1820-1870\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40239077949555,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e01219ce-b86b-416f-96da-5fcafb1e26ef.jpg?v=1657114184","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/a-rhetoric-of-bourgeois-revolution-the-abbe-sieyes-and-what-is-the-third-estate-9780822315384","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}