Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 1)
by Lynn Huntpublished
May 28th 2004
by University of California Press
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Paperback, 272 pages
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0520241568
(isbn13: 9780520241565)
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When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, ex...more
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This book is Lynn Hunt’s reaction to an academy inundated with Marxist interpretations of the French Revolution. Hunt’s shifts focus from the social to the political, yet her monograph is hardly a step backward. She utilizes “new cultural history” to reexamine the emerging political culture of 1790s France. Hunt asserts that dominant structuralist theories of the era—including Modernization theorists and Marxists—have constructed nothing more than tautologies: they propose theorie...more
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