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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mona Ozouf , Lynn Hunt , Alan SheridanPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780674298842ISBN 10: 0674298845 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 01 October 1991 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsOne of the most brilliant books about the French Revolution written in recent years. In a dazzling analysis of revolutionary festivals, Mona Ozouf takes up the question of why revolutionaries of all stripes seemed so obsessed with public celebration… An unusually powerful and readable work of serious history. -- Edward Berenson * Los Angeles Times Book Review * Brilliantly conceived, cogently argued and a pleasure to read…this volume…was recognized at once as a work to reckon with, and Alan Sheridan’s luminous translation now makes it available in English. -- Eugen Weber * New York Times Book Review * Ozouf’s remarkable insights into the festivals and the revolution…offer fresh ways of understanding the immense effort the revolutionaries made both to destroy the ancien régime and to perpetuate an emerging secular, liberal order. -- Charles Rearick * American Historical Review * One of the most magisterial and original contributions to the interpretation of the French Revolution to appear in this decade. -- Carla Hesse * Eighteenth-Century Studies * One of the most brilliant books about the French Revolution written in recent years. In a dazzling analysis of revolutionary festivals, Mona Ozouf takes up the question of why revolutionaries of all stripes seemed so obsessed with public celebration... An unusually powerful and readable work of serious history. -- Edward Berenson * Los Angeles Times Book Review * Brilliantly conceived, cogently argued and a pleasure to read...this volume...was recognized at once as a work to reckon with, and Alan Sheridan's luminous translation now makes it available in English. -- Eugen Weber * New York Times Book Review * Ozouf's remarkable insights into the festivals and the revolution...offer fresh ways of understanding the immense effort the revolutionaries made both to destroy the ancien regime and to perpetuate an emerging secular, liberal order. -- Charles Rearick * American Historical Review * One of the most magisterial and original contributions to the interpretation of the French Revolution to appear in this decade. -- Carla Hesse * Eighteenth-Century Studies * Author InformationMona Ozouf is Director of Research at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles. Alan Sheridan is the author of Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth. He has also translated over 50 books, including works by Sartre, Lacan, and Foucault. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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