- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (5 Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312108028
- ISBN-13: 978-0312108021
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.9 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 818,172 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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."
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A rich collection of 38 primary documents covering the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France. There is an extensive introductory essay which provides the context for the documents and discusses the controversies over citizenship and rights in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France. Many of the documents have never been published before in English and they allow the students to read and analyse firsthand the many debates over human rights engendered by the French Revolution.
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The book is a very good collection of documents. However, it is a bit of an editorial nightmare and as most of the documents are modern translations I see no reason why the spelling and punctuation wasn't modernised rather than [sic] placed after misspellings in a rather distracting way. This is a minor flaw but one that means whilst reading one is liable to digress to thoughts about the strangeness of 18-19th Century grammer.
Other than that the book contains a nice, brief introduction to each article and it is an important book for understanding the context of the ideas during the French Revolution, specifically pertaining to minority groups. The documents on Jews and Slaves are useful. However there is a vast selection of books that concentrate on women during the revolution that go in to more detail than this.
Other than that the book contains a nice, brief introduction to each article and it is an important book for understanding the context of the ideas during the French Revolution, specifically pertaining to minority groups. The documents on Jews and Slaves are useful. However there is a vast selection of books that concentrate on women during the revolution that go in to more detail than this.
Format:Paperback
An excellent refresher and starting point. Lynn Hunt gives an excellent account, to follow this is a book called "inventing human rights" both go hand in hand!
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a truly brief and documentary history
10 Nov 2006
Format:Paperback
The title of the book is totally accurate. What we find in it is a brief, but also objective and straightforward, history of important issues that shaped the French Revolution and the contemporary political institution building processes. The book distributes important speeches, proposed bills and other documents in different sections, each of which dealing with specific problems (slavery, equality of citizens' rights, the status of the jews etc). It is a very useful book for those who are not scholars in the area but are looking for some reliable source. I highly recommend it.
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