bokomslag The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
Historia

The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789

Robert Darnton

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  • 2023

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. In retrospect we understand the French Revolution as the outcome of such factors as a faltering economy and Enlightenment thought. But what did the Parisians themselves think they were doing-how did they understand their world? In this dazzling history, Robert Darnton draws on decades of study to conjure a past as vivid as today's news. He explores eighteenth-century Paris as an information society like our own, its news circuits centered in cafés, on park benches, and under the Palais-Royal's Tree of Cracow. Through pamphlets, gossip, and public performances, the events of some forty years-from disastrous treaties and royal debauchery to thrilling hot-air balloon ascents-entered the churning collective consciousness of ordinary Parisians. With public trust eroding as new aspirations soared, Parisians prepared themselves for revolution.

  • Författare: Robert Darnton
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781324035589
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 576
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-11-01
  • Förlag: W. W. Norton & Company