The Ancien Regime

by Charles Kingsley

Title: Three Lectures ... on the Ancien Regime as it existed on the Continent before the French Revolution.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this series include lectures, compiled sketches, and chronological discourses on Greece, Rome, and other early European and African civilisations. The collection also has a selection of physical and classical geography texts. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Kingsley, Charles; 1867. 8 . 9220.c.29.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1867

About the author

Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire.

He was educated at Helston Grammar School before studying at King's College London, and the University of Cambridge. Charles entered Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1838, and graduated in 1842. He chose to pursue a ministry in the church. From 1844, he was rector of Eversley in Hampshire, and in 1860, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge.

His writing shows an impulse to reconfigure social realities into dream geographies through Christian idealism.

Reviews

[Cem Yüksel · Rating 3 out of 5]

1867’de Kingsley’inin verdiği konferanslardan toparlanmış Fransız Devrimi öncesi kıta Avrupa’sı ve İngiltere arasında kast karşılaştırması ve kastlar veya buradaki anlamda soylu sınıfın Fransa’da merkezileşme ile toplumdaki görevlerini yitirip , yozlaşma ve çöküşe girmesini , ayrı bir konferans başlığında da akılcılık, o dönemin spiritüalist yaklaşımlarını inceleyen ve eleştiren , dönemin pozitif ilerleme düşüncesine de , sanayi devrimi sonrası yoğunlaşan güç sahipliği ve bugünün AI etkisini öngördüğü söylenebilecek görüşler ileri süren bir kitap. Antik rejim diye adlandırdığı dönemlerde Portekiz’de Pombal, İspanya’da Aranda , Avusturya’da 2.Joseph , Napoli’de Ferdinand ve Caroline’in (Osmanlı’ya baksaydı muhtemelen bahsedeceği 3.Selim ve 2. Mahmut) reform çabalarının sadece kurumlara yönelik olup sıkıntı yaşadığı , asıl insanların değişmesi gerektiği tespiti , bugüne de yansıyabilecek bir görüş. Son yüzyılların değişim ve reform çabalarını anlamak için çalışanlara iyi bir perspektif sunuyor.