Author: C. Lucas

Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

Published: 1994-06

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780080424095

The series of three volumes on The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture was conceived by a committee of internationally renowned scholars to stimulate a critical enquiry into the Revolution as a defining event in modern European history. Volume One investigates the nature of French political culture under the Old Regime and the processses by which revolutionary principles and practices were invented within the context of absolute monarchy. Volume Two presents a discussion of the political culture of the Revolution itself, from the declaration of the principle of national sovereignity by the National Assembly until the creation of the Consulate. Volume Three assesses the transformation of European political culture in response to the Revolution in the period up to 1848. The analysis focuses on the principle currents of post-Revolution political thought, and includes papers on the work of writers such as Burke, Saint-Simon, de Tocqueville and Michelet. Now Volume Four is published. Drawing clear inspiration from the earlier highly acclaimed volumes, Professor Baker has now edited a supplementary volume. It has as its aim to advance, by focusing more precisely on the period of the Terror, the explanation of the nature and implications of the political culture of the French Revolution that the earlier volumes initiated.