The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312122497 ISBN 13: 9780312122492

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

Synopsis

This brief documentary history explores the issue of rights and citizenship that dominated Revolutionary France and helped define modern notions of civil rights. The rich selection of 38 primary documents - many never before published in Englishallows students to read and analyze, firsthand, the intense debates and subsequent legislation engendered by the French Revolution. An extensive introductory essay discusses the controversies over citizenship and rights current in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France. Headnotes for the documents, a chronology, a bibliography, engravings from the period, and questions to consider are also included.

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Review

"This outstanding documentary history will be of interest not only to students (and teachers) of the French Revolution but also to anyone interested in the history of human rights. It offers an unprecedented range of documents on a compelling and timely theme, introduced by the author's characteristic insight and clarity."

About the Author

LYNN HUNT, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California at Los Angeles, received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is the author of "Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France" (1978), "Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution" (1984), and "The Family Romance of the French Revolution" (1992); she is also the co-author of "Telling the Truth About History" (1994), co-author of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution" (2001, with CD-ROM), editor of "The New Cultural History "(1989), editor and translator of" The French Revolution and Human Rights "(1996), and co-editor of "Histories: French Constructions of the Past" (1995), "Beyond the Cultural Turn" (1999), and "Human Rights and Revolutions" (2000). She has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as president of the American Historical Association in 2002.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312122497
• ISBN 13: 9780312122492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 150
• Editor: Hunt Lynn Avery