The Revolutionary Temper: Paris 1748–1789 Robert Darnton Penguin Books Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

‘Events Do Not Come Naked Into The World They Clothed – In Attitudes Assumptions Values Memories Of Past Anticipations Future Hopes And Fears Many Other Emotions To Understand Events It Is Necessary Describe Perceptions That Accompany Them For Two Are Inseparable ’When A Parisian Crowd Stormed Bastille July 1789 Triggered An Event Global Consequence: Overthrow Monarchy Birth New Society Most Historians Account French Revolution By Viewing As Outcome Underlying Conditions Such Faltering Economy Class Conflict Or Enlightenment Ideology Without Denying Any These Robert Darnton Offers Different Explanation: What Parisians Themselves Those At Centre Thought Was Happening Time How Guided Their Actions Rise He Calls ‘The Revolutionary Temper’ Draws On Lifetime’s Study Pamphlets Books Underground Newsletters Songs Public Performances Exploring Paris Information Unlike Our Own Its News Circuits Were Centred Cafes Market-Places Park Benches Under Palais-Royal’s Tree Cracow Favourite Gathering-Place Gossips Shows Forty Years From Disastrous Treaties Official Corruption Royal Scandal Thrilling Hot-Air Balloon Ascents Conception Nation All Entered Collective Consciousness Ordinary Opinion Travelled Across This Profoundly Unequal Trust Authority Eroded Legitimacy Undermined Social Order Unravelled Much Darnton’s Work Has Explained Hidden Dynamics History Never More So Than Exceptional Book Riveting Narrative But Adds Dimension Contemporary Which Allows Us See Momentous Decades Afresh Σελίδες: 576 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm