Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century (The Making of Modern Freedom) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804727481 ISBN 13: 9780804727488

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both inside and outside of revolutionary situations in the nineteenth century, as each author explores and interprets the development of nineteenth-century political culture in a particular national context. The common focus is the struggle in various countries to define, advance, or delimit freedom after the French Revolution. The introductory chapter evokes the problematic relationships between reform and revolution and introduces themes that appear in subsequent chapters, though each chapter is a free-standing interpretive essay. Among the issues addressed are the growth of the public sphere and associational movements; battles over constitutionalism, parliamentary institutions, and the franchise; the role of the state in inhibiting or expanding citizenship and the rule of law; the resort to violence by parties of order or parties of change; and the intrusion of new social questions or ethnic conflicts into the political arena.

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Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both inside and outside of revolutionary situations in the nineteenth century, as each author explores and interprets the development of nineteenth-century political culture in a particular national context.The common focus is the struggle in vario... Full description

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Isser Woloch is Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author, most recently, of The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0804727481
• ISBN 13: 9780804727488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Woloch Isser