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The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 598

The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime

An exploration of current scholarly thinking about the wide and surprisingly complex range of historical problems associated with the study of Ancien Régime Europe

The Oxford History of the French Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 808

The Oxford History of the French Revolution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-11-28
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

This new edition of the most authoritative, comprehensive history of the French Revolution of 1789 draws on a generation of extensive research and scholarly debate to reappraise the most famous of all revolutions. Updates for this second edition include a generous chronology of events, plus an extended bibliographical essay providing an examination of the historiography of the Revolution. Opening with the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, the book traces the history of France through revolution, terror, and counter-revolution, to the triumph of Napoleon in 1802, and analyses the impact of events both in France itself and the rest of Europe. William Doyle shows how a movement which began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy, not only for the ruling orders, but for the millions of ordinary people all over Europe whose lives were disrupted by religious upheaval, and civil and international war. It was they who paid the price for the destruction of the old political order and the struggle to establish a new one, based on the ideals of liberty and revolution, in the face of widespread indifference and hostility.

The French Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 143

The French Revolution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.

Aristocracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Aristocracy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-11-25
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Aristocracies or nobilities dominated the social, economic, and institutional history of all European counties until only a few generations ago. The relics of their power, in traditions and behaviour, in architecture and the arts, are still all around us. This short introduction shows how ideas of aristocracy originated in ancient times, were transformed in the middle ages, and have only fallen apart over the last two centuries. The myths in which aristocracies have always sought to shroud themselves are stripped away, but the true sources of their enduring power are also revealed. Their outlook and behaviour affected the rest of society in innumerable and sometimes surprising ways, but perh...

Let the Children Play
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

Let the Children Play

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Play is the key to giving children skills they need to succeed - creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy, concentration, and execution function. Yet our policies are destroying authentic play in our schools and replacing it with standardization and stress. Not so in Finland, which is ranked as having the #1 education system in the world as well as the happiest citizens. In Let the Children Play, Pasi Sahlberg, former Director General of Finland's Ministry of Education and Culture, and William Doyle, documentary producer, author, and Fulbright Scholar, announce a platform for bringing the Finnish style of education to the U.S. Providing a glimpse into the play-based experiments ongoing now all over the world, readers will find the book to be both a call for change and a guide for making that change happen in their own communities"--

The Writers Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 570

The Writers Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Nationalism in the New World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Nationalism in the New World

Nationalism in the New World brings together work by scholars from the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the common problem of how the nations of the Americas grappled with the basic questions of nationalism: Who are we? How do we imagine ourselves as a nation? Debates over the origins and meanings of nationalism have emerged at the forefront of the humanities and social sciences over the past two decades. However, these discussions have been mostly about nations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, or Africa. In addition, their focus is usually on the violence spawned by ethnic and religious strains of nationalism, which have been largely absent in the Americas. The c...

Cultures of Power in Europe During the Long Eighteenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 406

Cultures of Power in Europe During the Long Eighteenth Century

An analysis of the forces which shaped politics and culture in Germany, France and Great Britain in the eighteenth century.

The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction

This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson.