The French Revolution (Summarized Edition) (eBook)

Enriched edition. An archival, positivist anatomy of revolutionary France: from the Ancien Régime's collapse to Jacobin power and the Terror.

Hippolyte Taine (Autor)

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2026
476 Seiten
Quickie Classics (Verlag)
859-654787813-1 (EAN)

Infos

In The French Revolution (Vol. 1–3), Taine anatomizes the upheaval from the Old Regime's collapse to Jacobin ascendancy and the Terror. Mining parish registers, provincial archives, and memoirs, he splices granular case studies with sociological theses, organized by his triad of race, milieu, and moment. The lapidary, polemical style contests Michelet's romanticism and converses with Tocqueville within nineteenth‑century positivist history. A philosopher‑critic (1828–1893) and later académicien, Taine forged a deterministic method to read culture through heredity, environment, and historical conjuncture. The shocks of 1848, the Franco‑Prussian War, and the Paris Commune tempered his view of mass politics. Years in departmental archives supplied the empirical backbone for these volumes within his larger Origins of Contemporary France, explaining how revolutionary passions built a centralized state. Essential for students of political thought, historiography, and state formation, this trilogy offers a bracing, if contested, counterpoint to celebratory tales of 1789. Read critically for its biases and you will find rich sources, unforgettable portraits, and a rigorous model of revolutionary causation.

Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Autor

Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2026
• Einführung: Julian Bailey
• Mitarbeit: Kommentare: Julian Bailey; Anpassung von: Julian Bailey
• Übersetzer: John Durand
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Ancien Regime downfall • Girondin federalism debate • Jacobin radicalism study • Origins of Contemporary France series • Paris 1790s politics • Positivist historiography study • Provincial insurrections France • Reign of Terror analysis • Revolutionary tribunals overview • Thermidorian reaction study